Group pressure could change some of these companies policies. What if lots of affected people started forwarding their problem spam to the companies who had sold their emails addresses, perhaps with a cover letter of ":Dear sir, I have received this spam, please see to it I stop receiving these messages form your affiliates".
If every time a million spam messages went out say 10% were forwarded went to a single customer service address at the company responsible - they might just do something about it.
How about spam fighting Microsoft carrying a web page of shame for companies that do that?
How about if IE or Mozilla's fishing filters pooped up to warn you not to give this multi-billion dollar company your email address?
Things would start changing when the average Joe saw that their browser warned them about these companies.
First off, i would say that this would be a great asset and a system I would use.
I would hope that with Google behind it we could see a big uptake from the developer community.
I would love to see all my favourite freeware programs use (this?) one central installer system.
One featuree I would love to see if - when reading here or on other site about a new freeware program there could be a link you coudl click that would open up the installer and the "about" section of the program being "promoted", ready for you to click install.
One thing that concerns me is so many programs these days have partnered with other organisations such as Mozilla or Google to also "advertise" and encourage you to install a browser or toolbar at the same time, do the freeware developers get some kick back from this? Would this new system be a deterrent for freeware developers to join if they could not longer be associated with the additional installs?
What about all the install options a typical windows program has? Shortcuts on desktop, quick launch short cuts, start menu group, associate/integrate with windows explorer and/or web browser, registration, emails of news, bookmarking of the devleopers www site? - It would be great if this installer project could standardise these options and allow the user to express their preference once.
For those who don't follow links here is an extract:
TAIWANESE CHIPSET FIRM, SIS said it was working with big US shop Dell, to build a low-cost PC.
SIS said its SiSM661GX chip set would form the heart of Dell's EC280 which is aimed at first-time PC buyers.
Am I the only person with some High School chemistry knowledge that is very worried about wearing a huge chunk of magnesium with a Lithium-Ion detonator^W battery attached to it....
cool, I'll just spend an extra $100 on a 17" or 19" LCD monitor and lie it flat on the desk. I'll drive it with the second monitor output of my graphics card. For screen protection I'll buy some kind of 3M film from staples for $10 a roll or a 200 pack of laser printable transparency sheets.
or even - I could roll my own context sensitive touch tablet, instead of a $1500 OLED keyboard
With the (arguably) poor reception for Vista from the press and user communities and the (GPU) Hardware and Games writers obviously wanting to push DirectX 10 to help sales (ooo shiney AND blured!) is MS under non-trivial pressure to bring DirectX10 to XP? What are the chances of this happening?
Will we end up with a backlash where OpenGL is updated to include features parity of the DirectX10 cards and developers switching to using OpenGL as the driver layer so they get the XP market?
It constantly amazes me how advanced technologies get lost and ignored.
The Acorn (later ARM) range of RISC workstations (popular int eh UK) had an operating system RISC OS.
From version 1 it had a vector based font system that was pushed as the standard for all applications (open API).
From Version 2 all window text was drawn using the system (with anti-aliasing and hinting).
From Version 3.5 (1994) the RISC OS came with a web browser that used this font system.
The font system used vector fonts, supported full sub-pixel antialiasing and hinting and kerning pairs.
Here we are 14 years later and most implementations of font renderings on GUI's and Web Browsers look smudgy and kerning pairs are still missing.
I would agree with your assertions IF these graphics cards had an on board sound chip that covered all the new HD audio formats.
All they offer is digital sound pass through from your existing sound card.
-Either way sound of any type on HDMI is of little practical use as IMO most owners of a HDTV set will also have a cinema amp and would rather feed sound card directly to the amp than listen to HD sound on 2x1W speakers on their flat panel (!)
So I'll stick with DVI thank you and be happy that when the "QuadHD" screens start rolling out in 10 years my ancient PC can drive them with dual link;-)
I would much rather have a DVI connectors on my graphics card than HDMI.
HDMI = single data link with HDCP
DVI = single data link with HDCP + dual data link for very hi res screens + Analogue
With the use of DVI to VGA adaptors and DVI to HDMI cables you get the most flexibility.
My Nvidia 7950GT card has DVI and HDCP for quite a while. A $10 cable gives me HDMI output...
Most people considering Vista on their existing machine will be considering a RAM upgrade not a CPU one as their first priority. It is reassuring that after Xmas 2006 RAM prices have been dropping (as I and other predicted). This is for two main reasons: 1) There was a spurt in RAM buying my PC makers to fulfil holiday new PC orders which is now quiet 2) Vista adoption has not been very high so far.
Perhaps finally, we will see the popular commercial/shareware/freeware programs taking advantage of GPU acceleration.
There are two main areas that I would love to see accelerated by GPU:
DivX or other MPEG4 Codec
MP3 Codec
Due to the asymmetry in CPU usage it is the ENCODING that would be revolutionized by GPU acceleration. I am sure I am not alone when I think of these two areas as the most time consuming tasks my home PC is set-upon. Yes ATI may have a soilution, but I want to see support for both Nvidia and ATI in a more generally avlaible encoder solution.
The reis no need to change anything about CD's (albums) in my opinion.
Of course I would like them to be cheaper (esp. relevant to CD singles), but when compared to ~$1 a track for downloads they are priced just right in my opinion....
Music in stored in high quality digital format suitable as a source for converting to any other format. - Check
No DRM (for most titles, or easily circumvented) - Check
Physical "Backup" already made for you - Check
Receipt and physical proof of ownership for contents insurance purposes - check.
If there was a quickly propagating virus written that made every infected machine report an invalid WGA then the call center that handles the WGA reactivation would collapse. It could be weeks or months before they could Handel that back log, unless the windows update website check for WGA was switched off so patches could be distributed to everyone (including the virus fix) - the side effect being that everyone for a period would be able to get windows updates.
Eventually the whole WGA approach would fail if more and more virus variants came out. It would be more trouble than it is worth. (how to tell the virus infected legit customers form the smaller minority of illegal users).....
I bet there are more consequences if given some more thought...
I always banging my head against the wall whenever I see any "big room" A/V product that is wireless (I'm not talking ipods here). Don't these guys get it....?
You are still going to have the power Cord!
So one thick cable for power is almost always going to be visible. What is the problem with a thin one for HDMI ?
I would like to know how I can tell if such throttling is happening.
I use the latest Bitcommet Client and no matter what I set for upload/download rates I never break about ~ 80kb (or is it KB) download speed. No matter if I am downloading ~10 files simultaneously or just 1 or 2 popular files. "Health" is always >1500%
I have tried several web speed tests and my cable speed is indeed the ~ 5Mbit/s DL / 0.5Mbit/s UL that I am purchasing.
I am using XP, XP firewall and a recent model linksys router. I have configured port forwarding on the router and Bitcomments reports that it is happy and not struggling behind a firewall.
I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions. - I was wondering if there is any reliable Bitcomment speed test that can be performed?
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should be enough to ensure Democracy players success.
Mod this guy up.
Group pressure could change some of these companies policies. What if lots of affected people started forwarding their problem spam to the companies who had sold their emails addresses, perhaps with a cover letter of ":Dear sir, I have received this spam, please see to it I stop receiving these messages form your affiliates".
If every time a million spam messages went out say 10% were forwarded went to a single customer service address at the company responsible - they might just do something about it.
How about spam fighting Microsoft carrying a web page of shame for companies that do that?
How about if IE or Mozilla's fishing filters pooped up to warn you not to give this multi-billion dollar company your email address?
Things would start changing when the average Joe saw that their browser warned them about these companies.
First off, i would say that this would be a great asset and a system I would use.
I would hope that with Google behind it we could see a big uptake from the developer community.
I would love to see all my favourite freeware programs use (this?) one central installer system.
One featuree I would love to see if - when reading here or on other site about a new freeware program there could be a link you coudl click that would open up the installer and the "about" section of the program being "promoted", ready for you to click install.
One thing that concerns me is so many programs these days have partnered with other organisations such as Mozilla or Google to also "advertise" and encourage you to install a browser or toolbar at the same time, do the freeware developers get some kick back from this? Would this new system be a deterrent for freeware developers to join if they could not longer be associated with the additional installs?
What about all the install options a typical windows program has? Shortcuts on desktop, quick launch short cuts, start menu group, associate/integrate with windows explorer and/or web browser, registration, emails of news, bookmarking of the devleopers www site? - It would be great if this installer project could standardise these options and allow the user to express their preference once.
Express
Downstream up to 1.5 Mbps
Upstream up to 1 Mbps
This is a selling point for me in itself.
For those who don't follow links here is an extract:
TAIWANESE CHIPSET FIRM, SIS said it was working with big US shop Dell, to build a low-cost PC. SIS said its SiSM661GX chip set would form the heart of Dell's EC280 which is aimed at first-time PC buyers.
Ncie link. They did manage to ignite magnesium alloy, so it is a possible risk.
BTW - did some research.
Ignition temperature of Magnesium = 473 C
Ignition point of Aluminium = 760 C
Temperature of Lithium Burning = 760 C
Temperature of Magnesium Burning = 2204 C (!!)
So I stand by my worry that a Lithium battery fire could ignite a magnesium case fire. And add the worry that the temperatures woudl be MUCH greater.
Am I the only person with some High School chemistry knowledge that is very worried about wearing a huge chunk of magnesium with a Lithium-Ion detonator^W battery attached to it....
Mod this guy up, that is a very good idea. Firefox imports your book marks. So why should a new OS not take time to transfer everything over?
Am I the only one thinking...
cool, I'll just spend an extra $100 on a 17" or 19" LCD monitor and lie it flat on the desk. I'll drive it with the second monitor output of my graphics card. For screen protection I'll buy some kind of 3M film from staples for $10 a roll or a 200 pack of laser printable transparency sheets.
or even - I could roll my own context sensitive touch tablet, instead of a $1500 OLED keyboard
...with new gadgets comes new opportunities.
I hope this is not a dupe - I certainly was not aware....
l ogies/management/powershell/download.mspx
...PowerShell is avlaibel for MS OS's older than Vista too:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techno
On a related note there is the AnyDVD-HD program recently released. Are they constantly fighting legal battles?
It appears many enterprise / business customers demand that cell phone Not have a camera to be in compliance with their IT/company policy.
Does this mean there will be a camera free iPhone?
With the (arguably) poor reception for Vista from the press and user communities and the (GPU) Hardware and Games writers obviously wanting to push DirectX 10 to help sales (ooo shiney AND blured!) is MS under non-trivial pressure to bring DirectX10 to XP? What are the chances of this happening?
Will we end up with a backlash where OpenGL is updated to include features parity of the DirectX10 cards and developers switching to using OpenGL as the driver layer so they get the XP market?
It constantly amazes me how advanced technologies get lost and ignored.
The Acorn (later ARM) range of RISC workstations (popular int eh UK) had an operating system RISC OS.
From version 1 it had a vector based font system that was pushed as the standard for all applications (open API).
From Version 2 all window text was drawn using the system (with anti-aliasing and hinting).
From Version 3.5 (1994) the RISC OS came with a web browser that used this font system.
The font system used vector fonts, supported full sub-pixel antialiasing and hinting and kerning pairs.
Here we are 14 years later and most implementations of font renderings on GUI's and Web Browsers look smudgy and kerning pairs are still missing.
links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_OS
I would agree with your assertions IF these graphics cards had an on board sound chip that covered all the new HD audio formats.
;-)
All they offer is digital sound pass through from your existing sound card.
-Either way sound of any type on HDMI is of little practical use as IMO most owners of a HDTV set will also have a cinema amp and would rather feed sound card directly to the amp than listen to HD sound on 2x1W speakers on their flat panel (!)
So I'll stick with DVI thank you and be happy that when the "QuadHD" screens start rolling out in 10 years my ancient PC can drive them with dual link
As a side note - Where are the HD sound cards?
I would much rather have a DVI connectors on my graphics card than HDMI.
HDMI = single data link with HDCP
DVI = single data link with HDCP + dual data link for very hi res screens + Analogue
With the use of DVI to VGA adaptors and DVI to HDMI cables you get the most flexibility.
My Nvidia 7950GT card has DVI and HDCP for quite a while. A $10 cable gives me HDMI output...
Most people considering Vista on their existing machine will be considering a RAM upgrade not a CPU one as their first priority. It is reassuring that after Xmas 2006 RAM prices have been dropping (as I and other predicted). This is for two main reasons: 1) There was a spurt in RAM buying my PC makers to fulfil holiday new PC orders which is now quiet 2) Vista adoption has not been very high so far.
So will RAM prices (DDR and DDR2) fall as Xmas passes or go up as people relaise they need more for Vista?
Perhaps finally, we will see the popular commercial/shareware/freeware programs taking advantage of GPU acceleration.
There are two main areas that I would love to see accelerated by GPU: DivX or other MPEG4 Codec MP3 Codec
Due to the asymmetry in CPU usage it is the ENCODING that would be revolutionized by GPU acceleration. I am sure I am not alone when I think of these two areas as the most time consuming tasks my home PC is set-upon. Yes ATI may have a soilution, but I want to see support for both Nvidia and ATI in a more generally avlaible encoder solution.
GPS map files can easily exceed the 32 MB limit currently used.
So what happens if a user, or A LOT of users increased their default connection limit to >2 ?
For example, say a popular browser in it's next release had a default of 10?
What would be the effect on servers (small and large)? Would it help everyone? Do servers reject >2 connections by default?
The reis no need to change anything about CD's (albums) in my opinion.
Of course I would like them to be cheaper (esp. relevant to CD singles), but when compared to ~$1 a track for downloads they are priced just right in my opinion....
Music in stored in high quality digital format suitable as a source for converting to any other format. - Check No DRM (for most titles, or easily circumvented) - Check Physical "Backup" already made for you - Check Receipt and physical proof of ownership for contents insurance purposes - check.
If there was a quickly propagating virus written that made every infected machine report an invalid WGA then the call center that handles the WGA reactivation would collapse. It could be weeks or months before they could Handel that back log, unless the windows update website check for WGA was switched off so patches could be distributed to everyone (including the virus fix) - the side effect being that everyone for a period would be able to get windows updates.
Eventually the whole WGA approach would fail if more and more virus variants came out. It would be more trouble than it is worth. (how to tell the virus infected legit customers form the smaller minority of illegal users).....
I bet there are more consequences if given some more thought...
I always banging my head against the wall whenever I see any "big room" A/V product that is wireless (I'm not talking ipods here). Don't these guys get it....?
You are still going to have the power Cord!
So one thick cable for power is almost always going to be visible. What is the problem with a thin one for HDMI ?
I would like to know how I can tell if such throttling is happening.
I use the latest Bitcommet Client and no matter what I set for upload/download rates I never break about ~ 80kb (or is it KB) download speed. No matter if I am downloading ~10 files simultaneously or just 1 or 2 popular files. "Health" is always >1500%
I have tried several web speed tests and my cable speed is indeed the ~ 5Mbit/s DL / 0.5Mbit/s UL that I am purchasing.
I am using XP, XP firewall and a recent model linksys router. I have configured port forwarding on the router and Bitcomments reports that it is happy and not struggling behind a firewall.
I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions. - I was wondering if there is any reliable Bitcomment speed test that can be performed?