Only redundant if you have all day to read slashdot. If you have 15 minutes in the morning to read anything interesting on slashdot, you, much like myself, probably didn't see another tubes comment. Someone should take your modpoints.
Which is why it won't need antivirus, if the line from MS about Linux and MacOS not needing antivirus because nobody bothers with them due to their small marketshare turns out not to be complete BS. If nobody runs Vista, nobody will write a Vista virus, right?
Or are hackers just like all other humans, just like electricity, water, wind and pretty much everything else and take the path of least resistance? "I want my virus to work, so I'll code it for the weakest platform."
Or, it means the repubs threw the election this time so we won't suspect them next time. We won it by too damned wide of a margin for it to be legit, Just like Bush won it in '04.
Oh, wait, you were JOKING? Oh, ok.
On a reference platform, no, BIOSes usually are NOT production-quality.
Well, wait, if, by production-quality, you mean the same quality you get from the first retail production run and software revision, then, yes, they are.
Why did this get modded insightful while my comment did not? This, a grandchild reply to my comment, is redundant. Thank you for your support, however, residieu.
Actually, the way it is worded, this is EXACTLY what will happen. It would appear, and this is only conjecture but it seems to make sense in a Microsoft sort of way, that the Zune will, in addition to playing MP3 and WMA files (including DRMed WMA files) and perhaps a multitude of other formats, be able to play another format which PlaysForSure devices do not understand.
The catch is this: once the music is on the Zune, it is wrapped in the Zune's own DRM, whether it had DRM on it originally or not. If it is in a format the Zune can understand (and why would it not understand PlaysForSure WMA files?) it will be wrapped in the Zune's DRM and kept on the Zune. It will be allowed, from there, to be sent to other Zune devices and played on them for a limited period of time (I believe it was 3 days or a certain number of listens, whichever comes first).
I would also assume that some mechinism is included in the Zune DRM by which content creators can modify the terms under which "borrowed" music can be played. That is, when you purchase the trrack for your Zune, you are allowed to play it indefinitely, but, if you transfer it to another Zune, you may be granted more or less than the standard "preview" period. This is the only "feature" that I am pulling out of thin air, the rest of what I have said was very strongly implied, or stated outright, by Microsoft at one point or another.
Before you flame me for not citing sources, RTFA; or, at least, RTFS, that's all I read and I picked up on the fact that it was stated that PlaysForSure devices would not play Zune music, while it was never stated that the Zune would not play PlaysForSure content.
I've been following this story for a while. I've read the original summary regarding this topic, as well as this and the previous dupe that have graced the front page of Slashdot in the last two months. More than can be said for all the "Zune won't play PlaysForSure files? WTF?" morons out there. And no, I didn't RTFA, I see no reason to, I'll never own a Zune unless the firmware gets hacked, in which case it won't matter anyway.
And no, you can not flame me for starting a sentence with and.
Moving the mouse is like moving your eyes. The mouse cursor indicates the object you are currently focused on (how many people do you see moving the mouse cursor as they read something? I see a lot of my coworkers do it and I've done it once or twice to mark my place when I have to get up frequently), not the object you want. You're not pointing with the cursor, you're looking with it. You're pointing when you click. If you have two mouse buttons, a left-click is a point, a right click examines the object further to see what else it can do before you point at it.
That's almost right, but, stores will be buying them. Sony gets thier money from the stores stocking it, not the consumer purchasing it. Do you want to hurt the stores or Sony?
Once it's on the store shelf, Sony's made their money (or lost it). Not buying the console, at least, will hurt retailers and drive up prices of other products to offset the cost, perhaps even putting smaller retailers out of business (and their employees out of work).
I say support the retailers and buy the system, they'll order more and Sony will lose more.
Of course, you can expect retailers to stock games based on console sales, so the more consoles they sell the more games they will stock. It should be obvious by now that Sony gets paid for the games the same way they get paid for the consoles; when they hit store shelves, rather than when they hit your cart.
Bottom line, it doesn't matter to Sony whether you buy the console, it doesn't matter whether you buy games or accessories or not. To corporations lime Sony, it really doesn't matter what the consumer does anymore. It does, however, matter to the retailers. If you like the low prices you have access to right now (they're lower than they could be!) and would buy the PS3 were it a Nintendo product, go ahead and buy it, and the games and accessories you want, retailers have already floated Sony's boat with their volume purchases.
That's how the market works, boys and girls, once it's on the shelf, the only entity you hurt by not buying it is the retailer. Hurting the manufacturer by buying the loss-leader only works if you're buying from the manufacturer.
Rather than serve images, serve the.vmx files and just run EVERYTHING off the network. Why don't people as smart as/.ers stop ant think, you can netboot ANYTHING, as long as it doesn't know it's netbooting (think configuring VMware to use a network share as IDE0:1).
Than you're not getting hammered for 2-4GB images at boot time, nothing gets saved to the local HD, unless your employees are screwing around, then you can tell because you'll find the files saved on the local HD.
Even better, netboot the PCs to begin with, make the only purpose of the HD temporary storage and swapfile, physically disable (i.e. remove) CD-ROM and floppy drives and allow access to these media types over the network, with IT supoervision (i.e. hand them the disk, let them scan it for virii and see what's on it, then insert it into a drive on a server somewhere and tell you the address to connect to it).
Also, if you're pulling an entire disk image, that will likely include all the data the employee has stored on C:, some of which may be sensitive. You may not want this traversing the network every time that user logs on, ESPECIALLY if they don't use that data every time they log on (why send it if they don't need it... for both technical and security reasons).
Less UNNECESSARY sensitive data sent over the pipe and the less frequently sensitive data is sent, coupled with fewer storage options provided to the end user means less opprotunity for that data to find its way outside yoru organization. Doesn't make it impossible but it does make it harder.
Solution seems pretty simple to me. If you have gig-E (and are willing to throw another NIC in the server when you need more bandwidth) and maintain a low-latency network most of the time (meaning when your users aren't TRYING to muck it up) you should have no problem whatsoever. Otherwise, the problems will be minimal compared to the benefits.
Just... don't have the PC and VM both boot from the same image or log onto the same server as the same user with the same startup script to start VMware because... well... duh.
Oh, and easy on the redundant modding... I didn't have time to read EVERY comment before posting this (some people need sleep). However, what I did read was a mess of redundancy, mostly modded informative, interesting and insightful.
This, hand in hand with my hardware/drivers question/suggestion, would be absolutely wonderful. Perhaps this is what Linux needs in order to gain marketshare!
Sorry for replying to myself, however, I did not want to go into too many details of my vision in the question.
My thought here is the following: What is keeping me, and many people I know, from switching to Linux is hardware compatibility rather than software availability or the interface or ease of installation. Basicly, we own stuff that doesn't work under Linux, period.
To compound this, there are a great number of potentially very high quality products made by very small manufacturers, just trying to gain marketshare. This program would be incentive for them to gain that marketshare by writing a good, open source Linux driver and becoming Certified.
Net result, the bigger corporations see a decrease in sales, as linux users move to Certified hardware over the next few years and respond by providing good, open source drivers and becoming Certified. Since becoming Linux Certified doesn't cost a cent, there's now no reason not to.
I believe that there is a huge problem with hardware support in Linux right now. To remedy this, the Linux community should work together toward some sort of Linux Driver Standard, similar to Microsoft's WDM Certification. One key way in which the Linux Certified Hardware program could differ from WDM is cost. If the Linux certification process were free for hardware manufacturers, where it is quite costly to become WDM Certified, we may see many of the smaller (and often better) manufacturers writing drivers for Linux just to get marketshare. One of the main requirements for the Certification would be that the driver be entirely open source and under a user-friendly license.
Being the distro responsible for pioneering such a Certification Program could have a huge impact on the number of people using that distro. Why hasn't Fedora taken such steps?
DeBeers will defend the place (and price) of the diamont VERY violently. Expect the price of tech gadgets to skyrocket as many companies agree to pay protection to the cartel and many others disappear when they don't.
Wait...
Is this a dupe of one of the three diamond semiconductor articles to hit the front page in the last few months? I don't know, I didn't read it (or the other 3 for that matter).
Oh, and I expect insightful AND funny mods for this.
I mean... sure, it will be nice for a while, when you're the only one who has one. Too many people in the crowd? need ot get through? Just blow over them.
Wait until everyone has one and the crowd is 10 feet off the ground. Bump into someone and suddenly you're plummeting to the ground.
Not to mention the short flight time. 5 minutes? I'm sure the average person would find a 90lb backpack cumbersome to carry all day if it can only carry them for 5 minutes.
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Just read the topic. Past that, I have nothing. Mods, be gentle.
Thermite.
Only redundant if you have all day to read slashdot. If you have 15 minutes in the morning to read anything interesting on slashdot, you, much like myself, probably didn't see another tubes comment. Someone should take your modpoints.
Wouldn't smaller tubes make your internets go slower? Hope the mods see my isajoke flag waving.
Which is why it won't need antivirus, if the line from MS about Linux and MacOS not needing antivirus because nobody bothers with them due to their small marketshare turns out not to be complete BS. If nobody runs Vista, nobody will write a Vista virus, right?
Or are hackers just like all other humans, just like electricity, water, wind and pretty much everything else and take the path of least resistance? "I want my virus to work, so I'll code it for the weakest platform."
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I thought PCMCIA stood for Personal Computers are Monitored by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Or, it means the repubs threw the election this time so we won't suspect them next time. We won it by too damned wide of a margin for it to be legit, Just like Bush won it in '04. Oh, wait, you were JOKING? Oh, ok.
On a reference platform, no, BIOSes usually are NOT production-quality.
Well, wait, if, by production-quality, you mean the same quality you get from the first retail production run and software revision, then, yes, they are.
Why did this get modded insightful while my comment did not? This, a grandchild reply to my comment, is redundant. Thank you for your support, however, residieu.
Actually, the way it is worded, this is EXACTLY what will happen. It would appear, and this is only conjecture but it seems to make sense in a Microsoft sort of way, that the Zune will, in addition to playing MP3 and WMA files (including DRMed WMA files) and perhaps a multitude of other formats, be able to play another format which PlaysForSure devices do not understand.
The catch is this: once the music is on the Zune, it is wrapped in the Zune's own DRM, whether it had DRM on it originally or not. If it is in a format the Zune can understand (and why would it not understand PlaysForSure WMA files?) it will be wrapped in the Zune's DRM and kept on the Zune. It will be allowed, from there, to be sent to other Zune devices and played on them for a limited period of time (I believe it was 3 days or a certain number of listens, whichever comes first).
I would also assume that some mechinism is included in the Zune DRM by which content creators can modify the terms under which "borrowed" music can be played. That is, when you purchase the trrack for your Zune, you are allowed to play it indefinitely, but, if you transfer it to another Zune, you may be granted more or less than the standard "preview" period. This is the only "feature" that I am pulling out of thin air, the rest of what I have said was very strongly implied, or stated outright, by Microsoft at one point or another.
Before you flame me for not citing sources, RTFA; or, at least, RTFS, that's all I read and I picked up on the fact that it was stated that PlaysForSure devices would not play Zune music, while it was never stated that the Zune would not play PlaysForSure content.
I've been following this story for a while. I've read the original summary regarding this topic, as well as this and the previous dupe that have graced the front page of Slashdot in the last two months. More than can be said for all the "Zune won't play PlaysForSure files? WTF?" morons out there. And no, I didn't RTFA, I see no reason to, I'll never own a Zune unless the firmware gets hacked, in which case it won't matter anyway.
And no, you can not flame me for starting a sentence with and.
And.
Ok, you can flame me for that.
The truth: Not everything is black and white
The problem: People read that as "Everything's not black and white"
Moving the mouse is like moving your eyes. The mouse cursor indicates the object you are currently focused on (how many people do you see moving the mouse cursor as they read something? I see a lot of my coworkers do it and I've done it once or twice to mark my place when I have to get up frequently), not the object you want. You're not pointing with the cursor, you're looking with it. You're pointing when you click. If you have two mouse buttons, a left-click is a point, a right click examines the object further to see what else it can do before you point at it.
it would be for them to register and use http://spamha.us/
1$16.99? What the hell country do YOU live in where THAT is the proper number format for currency?
That's almost right, but, stores will be buying them. Sony gets thier money from the stores stocking it, not the consumer purchasing it. Do you want to hurt the stores or Sony?
Once it's on the store shelf, Sony's made their money (or lost it). Not buying the console, at least, will hurt retailers and drive up prices of other products to offset the cost, perhaps even putting smaller retailers out of business (and their employees out of work).
I say support the retailers and buy the system, they'll order more and Sony will lose more.
Of course, you can expect retailers to stock games based on console sales, so the more consoles they sell the more games they will stock. It should be obvious by now that Sony gets paid for the games the same way they get paid for the consoles; when they hit store shelves, rather than when they hit your cart.
Bottom line, it doesn't matter to Sony whether you buy the console, it doesn't matter whether you buy games or accessories or not. To corporations lime Sony, it really doesn't matter what the consumer does anymore. It does, however, matter to the retailers. If you like the low prices you have access to right now (they're lower than they could be!) and would buy the PS3 were it a Nintendo product, go ahead and buy it, and the games and accessories you want, retailers have already floated Sony's boat with their volume purchases.
That's how the market works, boys and girls, once it's on the shelf, the only entity you hurt by not buying it is the retailer. Hurting the manufacturer by buying the loss-leader only works if you're buying from the manufacturer.
Thank you for your time and the +5 Insightful.
Rather than serve images, serve the .vmx files and just run EVERYTHING off the network. Why don't people as smart as /.ers stop ant think, you can netboot ANYTHING, as long as it doesn't know it's netbooting (think configuring VMware to use a network share as IDE0:1).
Than you're not getting hammered for 2-4GB images at boot time, nothing gets saved to the local HD, unless your employees are screwing around, then you can tell because you'll find the files saved on the local HD.
Even better, netboot the PCs to begin with, make the only purpose of the HD temporary storage and swapfile, physically disable (i.e. remove) CD-ROM and floppy drives and allow access to these media types over the network, with IT supoervision (i.e. hand them the disk, let them scan it for virii and see what's on it, then insert it into a drive on a server somewhere and tell you the address to connect to it).
Also, if you're pulling an entire disk image, that will likely include all the data the employee has stored on C:, some of which may be sensitive. You may not want this traversing the network every time that user logs on, ESPECIALLY if they don't use that data every time they log on (why send it if they don't need it... for both technical and security reasons).
Less UNNECESSARY sensitive data sent over the pipe and the less frequently sensitive data is sent, coupled with fewer storage options provided to the end user means less opprotunity for that data to find its way outside yoru organization. Doesn't make it impossible but it does make it harder.
Solution seems pretty simple to me. If you have gig-E (and are willing to throw another NIC in the server when you need more bandwidth) and maintain a low-latency network most of the time (meaning when your users aren't TRYING to muck it up) you should have no problem whatsoever. Otherwise, the problems will be minimal compared to the benefits.
Just... don't have the PC and VM both boot from the same image or log onto the same server as the same user with the same startup script to start VMware because... well... duh.
Oh, and easy on the redundant modding... I didn't have time to read EVERY comment before posting this (some people need sleep). However, what I did read was a mess of redundancy, mostly modded informative, interesting and insightful.
Also, his user number is 981. Can a user be in two categories simultaneously?
This, hand in hand with my hardware/drivers question/suggestion, would be absolutely wonderful. Perhaps this is what Linux needs in order to gain marketshare!
Please mod BOTH up!
Amen!
Thank you for completing the though process that I simply could not.
Sorry for replying to myself, however, I did not want to go into too many details of my vision in the question.
My thought here is the following: What is keeping me, and many people I know, from switching to Linux is hardware compatibility rather than software availability or the interface or ease of installation. Basicly, we own stuff that doesn't work under Linux, period.
To compound this, there are a great number of potentially very high quality products made by very small manufacturers, just trying to gain marketshare. This program would be incentive for them to gain that marketshare by writing a good, open source Linux driver and becoming Certified.
Net result, the bigger corporations see a decrease in sales, as linux users move to Certified hardware over the next few years and respond by providing good, open source drivers and becoming Certified. Since becoming Linux Certified doesn't cost a cent, there's now no reason not to.
In the end, this is win-win for everyone.
I believe that there is a huge problem with hardware support in Linux right now. To remedy this, the Linux community should work together toward some sort of Linux Driver Standard, similar to Microsoft's WDM Certification. One key way in which the Linux Certified Hardware program could differ from WDM is cost. If the Linux certification process were free for hardware manufacturers, where it is quite costly to become WDM Certified, we may see many of the smaller (and often better) manufacturers writing drivers for Linux just to get marketshare. One of the main requirements for the Certification would be that the driver be entirely open source and under a user-friendly license.
Being the distro responsible for pioneering such a Certification Program could have a huge impact on the number of people using that distro. Why hasn't Fedora taken such steps?
Dead horse, go fetch a switch from that willow tree.
DeBeers will defend the place (and price) of the diamont VERY violently. Expect the price of tech gadgets to skyrocket as many companies agree to pay protection to the cartel and many others disappear when they don't.
Wait...
Is this a dupe of one of the three diamond semiconductor articles to hit the front page in the last few months? I don't know, I didn't read it (or the other 3 for that matter).
Oh, and I expect insightful AND funny mods for this.
Yay! Everyone Soars! HowEver, What If Lucas Litigates?
I mean... sure, it will be nice for a while, when you're the only one who has one. Too many people in the crowd? need ot get through? Just blow over them.
Wait until everyone has one and the crowd is 10 feet off the ground. Bump into someone and suddenly you're plummeting to the ground.
Not to mention the short flight time. 5 minutes? I'm sure the average person would find a 90lb backpack cumbersome to carry all day if it can only carry them for 5 minutes.