At this point, there is no particular reason to have a bias in favor of life evolving on this planet, in space, or on some other planet. Stubbornly clinging to the notion that life on earth must have evolved on earth is unscientific, as is equating panspermia with "aliens" or "intelligent designers".
but Burst.com actually has useful technology, has owned the patents for over a decade, and most importantly, actually had highly regarded products that made use of the patents.
Burst.com's "technology" is an obvious engineering solution, and one that has been used for on-line multimedia distribution since before burst.com was even founded.
Apple is right to attempt to have their basic patents invalidated; they should not stand.
No, whether something is a crime sometimes depends on intent, but that sort of dependency is best avoided--intent is difficult to establish reliably.
Refreshing a webpage with the intent of taking it down is a Denial Of Service attack.
Refreshing a web page manually should never be a denial of service attack; if you bring intent into such a trivial and common action, you open the doors to widespread abuse of power by the government.
"Dashboard" was the name of the Gnome desktop search engine. Then Konfabulator came out. Then Apple took the Konfabulator idea and the Gnome name and came out with their own "Dashboard". Now, Yahoo! has re-released Konfabulator under the Dashboard name. Frankly, I hope Yahoo! sticks it to Apple in this case--Apple's handling of Dashboard was arrogant and annoying.
What I take away from these benchmarks is that Ext3 is still the most reasonable choice: mature, well supported, and good overall performance.
JFS, XFS, and ReiserFS are small players with a fraction of the user community and a fraction of the tools and support; their performance would have to be astounding in comparison to Ext3 to even consider them, but it isn't.
Unfortunately, benchmark-happy people like you, people who optimize for the wrong thing, are far too frequent in this industry.
I think there is a problem if only the government has access to cell phone records. If it becomes easy for everybody to get access, then the market will create mechanisms by which it becomes easy for people to regain their privacy (e.g., through disposable numbers, cash-based cell phone purchases, call routing, etc.).
I bought a Media Center PC; I found the UI to be mediocre, and after a few months, things gradually stopped working (as it received more and more patches and hotfixes). I eventually installed Linux and it works a lot better now. I also have used a Mac with a TV card, and I also find it a lot nicer than Media Center.
What's there to "allow for inflation"? It's $3600 in today's dollars.
If the service is a commercial success it won't stay at $60 forever.
Yeah, it will get cheaper.
Nor have you allowed for virtual certainty that sooner or later it will fail as a business enterprise, and you'll lose access.
If it does, it will be because there will be other, cheaper services around.
Give it another decade, and this sort of thing will just be part of the cable subscription and you'll get it out of the cable box, together with video on demand.
Summary of the article: "We're great. Trust us. Hire us. Pay us lots of money--it may look expensive, but we promise it will be cheaper in the long run. Really."
Additionally, what is some innovation that we've seen in other kernels, if there is no innovation in the Vista kernel. I'm curious to know about this innovation that other OS people are doing.
You're operating under the mistaken assumption that there has been significant innovation in any real-world kernels over the last decade; there has not been.
Vista playing catch up to the Linux kernel with respect to modularity and functionality? Are you kidding?
No, I'm not "kidding". I have seen no functionality in Vista that doesn't already exist for Linux. If you have, name it.
The difference is that Linux is modular enough that people can actually pick and choose which kernel and system features they want. Under Linux, features like file system metadata, ACLs, capabilities, transactional file systems, change monitoring, real-time indexing, etc. are modular and independent of one another. And--guess what--once you give people a choice, most of those supposedly "innovative features" turn out to be duds and people choose not to use them.
Gates' motivation in everything he says and does is to increase revenue, nothing else; there are plenty of examples that Gates will tell blatant lies when it serves his company: he'll say that products will ship soon that don't even exist yet, he'll misdirect competitors about who they are targeting, he'll claim credit for technology the company doesn't develop. And Gates is hardly alone in this among corporate leaders either--most of them do it.
So, when Gates says that IBM is their biggest threat, it may just be an attempt to direct attention away from a planned attack on Google.
Well, let's look at adult lifetime costs. 60 years x $60 = $3600; I have paid far more than that for CDs. So, subscription services make sense if you don't already have a large CD collection.
My only concern are that Yahoo's selection isn't big enough and that it only works on Windows.
It is simply not in their nature to pay royalties to another company - especially Apple who've been a thorn in their side all these years.
I suspect the problem in this case is Apple: making it any easier for other companies to compete with their music store would be a serious problem for them. And the entire iTunes/iPod infrastructure is carefully designed to keep out competition. Given that so much of Apple's success is depending on it, who can blame them?
First of all, the video is unviewable even with Microsoft Media Player on Mac, but you can find a whitepaper describing the kernel changes here. Keep in mind that all of this is basically Microsoft advertising for developers; it's not taking a "hard look" at the kernel architecture, it's the kernel developers portraying their work in the best light.
What's interesting is how little innovation there actually is. They seem to be struggling with the complexity of the system and its dependencies (5500 components)--similar to the problems Linus is having, but multiplied many times over by greater complexity of the NT system architecture. Most of their actual improvements seem to be cleanups and performance enhancements.
My impression is that the Vista kernel and system libraries are still playing catch-up with Linux in terms of modularity, performance, and functionality.
On the other hand, nobody who knows anything about photography will not be willing to put up with the lack of manual focus, lack of RAW format or no manual white balance adjustment.
People who know something about photography know that it is about making compromises; they often have multiple cameras and pick the best one for each job.
The V570 looks like an interesting camera; if image quality is at least decent, it will probably be quite popular, since you can't get a 23mm (equiv) lens in any package 5x the size and weight. Whether it has RAW, manual focus, or manual white balance doesn't matter.
And here we go again: another rule of thumb and back of the envelope calculation that biologists used to perform anyway gets reified and turned into a fundamental theory.
This is, perhaps, is the most universal law of the 21st century: ideas that didn't use to count as sound scientific theories or engineering principles have become acceptable as such.
Personally, I'd like to see them create a hybrid analog/digital sensor that combines the best of the film and digital worlds.
Fuji has been shipping sensors with special photo sites for highlights for several years now, and most of their consumer cameras have them. Several new sensor technologies are also in the works to give even greater dynamic range and from a single exposure.
With a regular sensor, you can combine multiple exposures of a scene digitally to get a very large dynamic range.
Ultimately, there is no "best" of the film world anymore; digital has pretty much surpassed film in every respect, including quality.
Unfortunately, you are terribly mistaken. Moreville, along with Rosenfeld and others, have pushed the Information Architecture aspects of the web from the very beginning.
<sarcasm>Wow, all the way back in the mid-90's. I mean, people had no idea before then how to organize information, and taxonomies and ontologies just didn't exist before then.</sarcasm>
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At this point, there is no particular reason to have a bias in favor of life evolving on this planet, in space, or on some other planet. Stubbornly clinging to the notion that life on earth must have evolved on earth is unscientific, as is equating panspermia with "aliens" or "intelligent designers".
but Burst.com actually has useful technology, has owned the patents for over a decade, and most importantly, actually had highly regarded products that made use of the patents.
Burst.com's "technology" is an obvious engineering solution, and one that has been used for on-line multimedia distribution since before burst.com was even founded.
Apple is right to attempt to have their basic patents invalidated; they should not stand.
Crime is often determined by intent.
No, whether something is a crime sometimes depends on intent, but that sort of dependency is best avoided--intent is difficult to establish reliably.
Refreshing a webpage with the intent of taking it down is a Denial Of Service attack.
Refreshing a web page manually should never be a denial of service attack; if you bring intent into such a trivial and common action, you open the doors to widespread abuse of power by the government.
A more basic question is whether he incided lawless behavior at all; is reloading a web page against the law now?
I can't find the boy's home phone to leave support messages there, although the article mentions that his address is:
:-)
No, you got it all wrong. The place to leave "support" messages is the school administrator's home phone.
"Dashboard" was the name of the Gnome desktop search engine. Then Konfabulator came out. Then Apple took the Konfabulator idea and the Gnome name and came out with their own "Dashboard". Now, Yahoo! has re-released Konfabulator under the Dashboard name. Frankly, I hope Yahoo! sticks it to Apple in this case--Apple's handling of Dashboard was arrogant and annoying.
Thanks for the useful information. Just one more question:
It's SATA, not USB, but that's a minor nit.
I was thinking of plugging in an external USB disk. Are you saying the Tivo doesn't work with external USB disks?
What I take away from these benchmarks is that Ext3 is still the most reasonable choice: mature, well supported, and good overall performance.
JFS, XFS, and ReiserFS are small players with a fraction of the user community and a fraction of the tools and support; their performance would have to be astounding in comparison to Ext3 to even consider them, but it isn't.
Unfortunately, benchmark-happy people like you, people who optimize for the wrong thing, are far too frequent in this industry.
I think there is a problem if only the government has access to cell phone records. If it becomes easy for everybody to get access, then the market will create mechanisms by which it becomes easy for people to regain their privacy (e.g., through disposable numbers, cash-based cell phone purchases, call routing, etc.).
It's nice that it has Ethernet, but can you do anything useful with it or will it be heavily DRM'ed?
What about the data on the USB disk--is it encrypted or is it readable and usable MPEG files?
I bought a Media Center PC; I found the UI to be mediocre, and after a few months, things gradually stopped working (as it received more and more patches and hotfixes). I eventually installed Linux and it works a lot better now. I also have used a Mac with a TV card, and I also find it a lot nicer than Media Center.
You haven't allowed for inflation.
What's there to "allow for inflation"? It's $3600 in today's dollars.
If the service is a commercial success it won't stay at $60 forever.
Yeah, it will get cheaper.
Nor have you allowed for virtual certainty that sooner or later it will fail as a business enterprise, and you'll lose access.
If it does, it will be because there will be other, cheaper services around.
Give it another decade, and this sort of thing will just be part of the cable subscription and you'll get it out of the cable box, together with video on demand.
Summary of the article: "We're great. Trust us. Hire us. Pay us lots of money--it may look expensive, but we promise it will be cheaper in the long run. Really."
oh wait, macs don't have PC Card slots.
My Powerbook does.
Additionally, what is some innovation that we've seen in other kernels, if there is no innovation in the Vista kernel. I'm curious to know about this innovation that other OS people are doing.
You're operating under the mistaken assumption that there has been significant innovation in any real-world kernels over the last decade; there has not been.
Vista playing catch up to the Linux kernel with respect to modularity and functionality? Are you kidding?
No, I'm not "kidding". I have seen no functionality in Vista that doesn't already exist for Linux. If you have, name it.
The difference is that Linux is modular enough that people can actually pick and choose which kernel and system features they want. Under Linux, features like file system metadata, ACLs, capabilities, transactional file systems, change monitoring, real-time indexing, etc. are modular and independent of one another. And--guess what--once you give people a choice, most of those supposedly "innovative features" turn out to be duds and people choose not to use them.
Gates' motivation in everything he says and does is to increase revenue, nothing else; there are plenty of examples that Gates will tell blatant lies when it serves his company: he'll say that products will ship soon that don't even exist yet, he'll misdirect competitors about who they are targeting, he'll claim credit for technology the company doesn't develop. And Gates is hardly alone in this among corporate leaders either--most of them do it.
So, when Gates says that IBM is their biggest threat, it may just be an attempt to direct attention away from a planned attack on Google.
Well, let's look at adult lifetime costs. 60 years x $60 = $3600; I have paid far more than that for CDs. So, subscription services make sense if you don't already have a large CD collection.
My only concern are that Yahoo's selection isn't big enough and that it only works on Windows.
It is simply not in their nature to pay royalties to another company - especially Apple who've been a thorn in their side all these years.
I suspect the problem in this case is Apple: making it any easier for other companies to compete with their music store would be a serious problem for them. And the entire iTunes/iPod infrastructure is carefully designed to keep out competition. Given that so much of Apple's success is depending on it, who can blame them?
First of all, the video is unviewable even with Microsoft Media Player on Mac, but you can find a whitepaper describing the kernel changes here. Keep in mind that all of this is basically Microsoft advertising for developers; it's not taking a "hard look" at the kernel architecture, it's the kernel developers portraying their work in the best light.
What's interesting is how little innovation there actually is. They seem to be struggling with the complexity of the system and its dependencies (5500 components)--similar to the problems Linus is having, but multiplied many times over by greater complexity of the NT system architecture. Most of their actual improvements seem to be cleanups and performance enhancements.
My impression is that the Vista kernel and system libraries are still playing catch-up with Linux in terms of modularity, performance, and functionality.
As I was saying, if you need high dynamic range for moving images, you can get a Fuji S3 Pro. The point is: there is no real need to use film anymore.
On the other hand, nobody who knows anything about photography will not be willing to put up with the lack of manual focus, lack of RAW format or no manual white balance adjustment.
People who know something about photography know that it is about making compromises; they often have multiple cameras and pick the best one for each job.
The V570 looks like an interesting camera; if image quality is at least decent, it will probably be quite popular, since you can't get a 23mm (equiv) lens in any package 5x the size and weight. Whether it has RAW, manual focus, or manual white balance doesn't matter.
And here we go again: another rule of thumb and back of the envelope calculation that biologists used to perform anyway gets reified and turned into a fundamental theory.
This is, perhaps, is the most universal law of the 21st century: ideas that didn't use to count as sound scientific theories or engineering principles have become acceptable as such.
Personally, I'd like to see them create a hybrid analog/digital sensor that combines the best of the film and digital worlds.
Fuji has been shipping sensors with special photo sites for highlights for several years now, and most of their consumer cameras have them. Several new sensor technologies are also in the works to give even greater dynamic range and from a single exposure.
With a regular sensor, you can combine multiple exposures of a scene digitally to get a very large dynamic range.
Ultimately, there is no "best" of the film world anymore; digital has pretty much surpassed film in every respect, including quality.
Unfortunately, you are terribly mistaken. Moreville, along with Rosenfeld and others, have pushed the Information Architecture aspects of the web from the very beginning.
<sarcasm>Wow, all the way back in the mid-90's. I mean, people had no idea before then how to organize information, and taxonomies and ontologies just didn't exist before then.</sarcasm>
Wouldn't it be nice if Yahoo! open sourced Konfabulator so that people could port it to Linux?