Being able to fend off a predator is necessary, but it isn't efficient by any logic I can think of. You almost seem to suggest an ability to do necessary things is efficient. Communism is in theory much more efficient than capitalism. Taking your marketing example, I would genuinely say it is not efficient. Getting rid of marketing and having an independent agency test all competing products and provide the results would be 'efficient'.
A capitalist system provides the most efficient results in practice, but mainly because the underlying concept is people working for their own reward. Communism is in theory more efficient but doesn't work because it relies on everyone working selflessly for the greater good, and that doesn't happen enough.
Feeling pretty foolish now - I hadn't checked units on the figures I was giving - the US S2000 is indeed 162 lb ft torque which is more than 208 Nm for the UK model. US 237 bhp is spot on the UK 240 PS. Fuel economy is also about the same because US gallons are smaller than UK gallons.
However, regarding practicality, I wasn't necessarily talking about putting the same engine in a big four seater car. The S2000 is just a bit too small - I have to have the seat fully back and steering wheel fully up and it's still cramped. My current car is a Honda Prelude which is just that little bit bigger in the front which makes it much more comfortable. It's also a 2+2 but only one rear seat would ever be usable. The boot is a much better size as well. As much as I hate hot hatches, I would like to see the S2000 engine in the Civic Type R.
The article has some interesting technology but most engines still aren't making decent use of the existing technologies. The US seems to lag in engine technology, but it's not even just down to US manufacturers. Just picking a car I would consider buying - the Honda S2000 - here in the UK, it uses a 2 litre engine, while the US model uses a bigger 2.2 litre that produces less power, much less torque, has a much lower redline, and worse fuel consumption to top it off. I'm not singling out the US here though, it's only a little behind.
The S2000's 2 litre engine is regarded as one of the best 4 cylinder engines around. It develops more power (240bhp) than a typical 3 litre V6 and being substantially lighter than a 4 litre V8 means even they don't have much of an advantage. I'd love to see that sort of engine in some more practical cars. The problem is it's easier to play the numbers game and put in the 3 litre V6.
I got my Asus GeForce 7300GS HDMI card over six weeks ago! And this is in England where we're normally well behind the times:) I'm sure they'd been out for months before also. I'd spent a couple of months waiting for my Sharp LC37XD1E TV to appear in stock, and I'm sure HDMI cards were available way back then.
Great picture quality though - definitely the way forwards for HTPCs.
I work in warehouse automation, where there are plenty of off the shelf solutions, but none of them can really be tailored to efficiently meet the needs of particular customers (much like ERP systems). We provide a base system customised to the needs of the warehouse much more cheaply than a product designed to work off the shelf.
As technology improves, the amount of functionality that can be added to our core system increases. I support systems written back to 12 years ago, and you can see the progression where what we did then would be possible for off the shelf software now - our own core systems would handle it with a couple of weeks work. But they'd miss out on a lot of optimisation of processes and when the installations cost millions a year in running costs, that optimisation is well worth the cost.
This is the nature of the industry - permanently moving towards off-the-shelf software, but I don't expect it to finish that process any time soon. We've just started to move to a new level of that with open source, where really standard software gets easy enough that volunteers can supply it for free. Off-the-shelf vendors need to keep moving ahead of the open source advances. Bespoke software houses needs to move ahead of off-the-shelf applications.
Oh come on that's ridiculous. Clearly many of those lost users would also have told their friends about the software - I'd suggest tripling the damages from your conservative estimate.
The credit card companies are actually very good with this over here, and are often a lot of help for purchases of any size, well beyond their legal obligations. Our customer services are not always great over here but credit cards are one of the biggest exceptions I have found to this.
I suspect a lot of the other applications, including OpenOffice, didn't go Java because they had a large installed base of C/C++ they didn't want to give up
OpenOffice didn't go Java because it's not an open source solution. Some aspects are open and much Java stuff is free as in beer, but overall it is Sun's proprietary closed software. I've done a bit of work on OpenOffice in the past, only little bugfixes etc. but spent enough time reading the mailing lists to know many of the developers feel quite strongly about even the few small Java components in the software.
I think one of the big problems with desktop apps and applets is the overall look and feel of the standard Java GUI libraries (AWT and Swing). It's just horrible. AWT is lacking a lot of features, and Swing is slooooow. Neither looks as polished as either Windows / Gnome / KDE / OSX / pretty much any alternative standard look and feels. I notice you mentioned using Eclipse - I also use this and it really shows how much better Java would be if the SWT libraries were the standard for GUIs. I'm not a full-time Java programmer, so unfortunately have never learnt the SWT libraries for my own apps, I just use the pig and lipstick approach of Swing with J-Goodies Plastic XP theme. Most of the stuff I do in Java just doesn't have an interface. For server-side work, everything feels really thought through. Basics like the Collections classes and higher level stuff like the SAX for XML make server side work a joy. Swing code looks equally nice, but the end result just isn't there.
A non-mathematician has no shot at proving FLT or Poincare or the Riemann hypothesis.
I think the point is that with super-abundant resources, there would simply be more mathematicians. At present, intelligent people who would have a shot are going into fields like business, law, accountancy - fields where they can make money now. Maths can't compete with the salaries here, and unless you prove one of the dozen problems with a giant award waiting, you're not going to be a millionaire.
If resources were enough that this just didn't matter, I think you'd naturally get a lot more people involved in this sort of thinking profession with no guaranteed payoff at the end.
Not sure if this can really be true, but it does appear that the guy genuinely is the head of customer services. Regardless of whether it's a free service or not I think a company that intentionally behaves with that attitude deserves all it gets. It's free because they're getting advertising revenue, so they're being paid indirectly.
Hotmail did similar stuff to me which was very annoying and lost me a few years of email. I've just moved to using Gmail instead. My hotmail account is still used a lot but not much important stuff happens there - it's just for stuff where I expect to be spammed.
Remember the amount of work involved in this for the employer. Unless they're big enough to have HR staff that know their way around the system, it can cost quite a lot of time/money. Does EU foreigner mean foreigner from inside the EU, or from outside it? There shouldn't be too much difficulty if you're from the EU here in the UK.
I'm not sure what it is essential for the employer to do for foreign employees. We have a couple of Chinese people at my workplace and I was under the impression they had sorted out work permits themselves - it's a small company without an HR department. I think the US has some sort of requirements for foreign workers that the employer has to sponsor them but I don't think it's true of the UK.
I was actually going to mention something along these lines but decided to keep my post short. This is what I meant by getting a high def player into homes ahead of demand. As these people buy a new TV, they'll look into it enough to know that they've now got a high def TV (can't really buy a 'low' def TV anymore), and hey, they've already got a nice new high def player to go with it. No reason to even look at HD-DVD - before they spend that money they'll ask what extra they get compared to Blu-Ray and the answer just won't be compelling enough to try it.
Sony does have deep pockets. Remember that PS3 is currently hurting their profit margins, but they are still making profits - PS2 is continuing to bring in the money while XBox is now mostly dead for Microsoft. Their TV line is also hugely popular right now. For the first time, they've got a genuinely good range of LCD TVs that may restore some of the dominance they lost in the switch from CRTs.
I'd like to know the sort of royalties they will make on both games and Blu-Ray technology. If it's high enough, maybe they really can afford to drop the price. Microsoft only has one of those revenue streams coming in - AFAIK they are supporting HD-DVD but have no stake in the hardware technology.
Also, Microsoft has the home advantage in the US, so this will skew sales figures somewhat. Europe is a bigger market and a level playing field for the companies. When the console launches over here, I'd expect sales figures to be looking better.
Just for a moment, forget the consumer (everyone else is doing it...)
Whatever your feelings re PS3, you know it's going to sell 10 million units plus in a short time. In the meantime, only relatively small numbers of consumers are actually buying either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray players. DVD is good enough for most. Although the PS3 isn't primarily a Blu-Ray player, it does have that feature.
So when you're a movie studio or retailer and looking at the current / expected install base of HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray capable players over the next year or so, Blu-Ray is the only way to go. The PS3 is putting high definition playback into homes ahead of the mainstream demand. I read last week (Ars Technica I think) that total sales of Blu-Ray plus HD-DVD standalone players were around 700,000 in the US so far. PS3 alone is probably past that by now.
Standalone players are likely to sell more discs per unit than PS3s, but I'd guess many people with $600 to spend on a console will also grab a few Blu-Ray discs to try out.
So many good points there. Although somehow the reports say public transport is getting better I only ever see it getting worse with most services being cut back to run less regularly and many cut entirely - the village I grew up in now has only one bus an hour, down from around 6 when I was a kid.
I do cycle to work, but most of the bike lanes are pointless - two sections are only 10 metres long, another is right outside peoples houses so it's just full of parked cars.
House prices are now so high that even with a well paying job, I'm looking at moving half an hour drive from work to be able to afford more than a terrace. I'm already signed up to the petition and hope plenty more people do.
It's always been Googlemail here in the UK, but I still got a gmail address - I don't think it was ever made difficult to get gmail.com here - I seem to remember I just had to pick which I wanted.
Take a look at Anapod explorer. It's not a free solution, but it works. iTunes is just a different interface than windows explorer - there's nothing horrid about it and nothing preventing you from using another interface.
That's only really a solution where you have multiple servers for the same services. In a lot of cases you'll have one server for services X and Y and another for Z.
I'd mod that interesting if I wasn't already posting on this thread:)
I can't find an awful lot of information on how it's implemented, but it seems designed to stop wholesale bypass of the DRM scheme (i.e. copy every bit of the disc from source to target, which gives you a copy with full DRM etc. without ever breaking the DRM). My guess would be that certain details of the volume key would tell the player to expect certain details in the ROM Mark.
I can't imagine this working on a disc with no DRM, simply because that would stop the disc being used for HD camcorders etc or just for archiving your own footage from other sources. Particularly with Blu-Ray debuting as a rewritable format, this is obviously a market they are after.
I occasionally do the opposite of this for my media centre - download a 1.4GB AVI because it's easier than ripping the DVD. To rip the DVD, I've got to either just rip the raw files which takes a lot of HD space, or I've got to know a lot more about the encoding options - my rips from DVD to XVID have always been poor quality compared to what is available online. Looking at the BBC HD stuff, it seems HD can be compressed to ~ 3-4 GB / hour while retaining most of the quality. The 1080 demos available from the divx.com website are also stunning at those sort of bitrates.
Unfortunately I've not yet seen any 20Mb/sec 'full' bitrate HD stuff yet. I've just bought a 1080p TV and I will buy in to the Blu-Ray / HD-DVD stuff, but not to the DRM side (same as for DVD). I am against piracy as it is clearly not morally OK, but defeating the hideously annoying uses to which DRM is being put does give me a nice warm feeling. While I can agree the copyright owner technically can impose whatever restrictions they like, I don't seem to remember ever agreeing to such restrictions when buying DVDs, and I don't think anyone can have any moral objection to format shifting and skipping copyright warnings.
The last straw for me on DRM was trying to watch my new Donnie Darko DVD while on the exercise bike. I got to see an unskippable copyright warning in English, then French, German, Italian, Spanish and even Suomi (Finnish!!! - at least I could understand one or two words from the other languages), each one shown for what seemed the best part of a minute. Following that there was a long video featuring a pirate with a branding iron that must have been a couple more minutes long, followed by scrolling notices and warnings from FACT. When the film eventually started, the timer on the exercise bike was already showing 10 minutes and 30 seconds and I was feeling quite tired and very annoyed.
I don't understand the point of revoking a hacked key. Now the key has been found and discs have been hacked, the output of the process is an unencrypted file with no key. Until something like AnyDVD comes out that just silently and automatically strips encryption on the fly, the primary use of the program will be to get unencrypted content onto P2P networks.
Why bother revoking the key? I must be missing something. Sure, don't use the same key on future discs, but pirated copies will have no encryption - key revocation only seems to affect legitimate users of the disc.
Interesting comment because I've not found that to be true. Our standard analogue TV is not upto DVD standards of course, but Sky Digital / Freeview is really good - in theory it's a better resolution compared to DVD - PAL is 576 lines compared to only 480 on a DVD. I would say films on Sky movies are easily DVD quality - maybe I've just got a cheap DVD player.
The US has a lower quality standard definition (NTSC) which is one reason why they are so far ahead of us in jumping to HD TV. My new 1080p TV should be arriving fairly soon, so I'll have to compare Sky to DVD on that.
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Being able to fend off a predator is necessary, but it isn't efficient by any logic I can think of. You almost seem to suggest an ability to do necessary things is efficient. Communism is in theory much more efficient than capitalism. Taking your marketing example, I would genuinely say it is not efficient. Getting rid of marketing and having an independent agency test all competing products and provide the results would be 'efficient'.
A capitalist system provides the most efficient results in practice, but mainly because the underlying concept is people working for their own reward. Communism is in theory more efficient but doesn't work because it relies on everyone working selflessly for the greater good, and that doesn't happen enough.
Damn. (You just made me check whether the bracketing was right (this isn't code! (so no need to bracket so much)) (it was (mine isn't)))).
Feeling pretty foolish now - I hadn't checked units on the figures I was giving - the US S2000 is indeed 162 lb ft torque which is more than 208 Nm for the UK model. US 237 bhp is spot on the UK 240 PS. Fuel economy is also about the same because US gallons are smaller than UK gallons.
However, regarding practicality, I wasn't necessarily talking about putting the same engine in a big four seater car. The S2000 is just a bit too small - I have to have the seat fully back and steering wheel fully up and it's still cramped. My current car is a Honda Prelude which is just that little bit bigger in the front which makes it much more comfortable. It's also a 2+2 but only one rear seat would ever be usable. The boot is a much better size as well. As much as I hate hot hatches, I would like to see the S2000 engine in the Civic Type R.
The article has some interesting technology but most engines still aren't making decent use of the existing technologies. The US seems to lag in engine technology, but it's not even just down to US manufacturers. Just picking a car I would consider buying - the Honda S2000 - here in the UK, it uses a 2 litre engine, while the US model uses a bigger 2.2 litre that produces less power, much less torque, has a much lower redline, and worse fuel consumption to top it off. I'm not singling out the US here though, it's only a little behind.
The S2000's 2 litre engine is regarded as one of the best 4 cylinder engines around. It develops more power (240bhp) than a typical 3 litre V6 and being substantially lighter than a 4 litre V8 means even they don't have much of an advantage. I'd love to see that sort of engine in some more practical cars. The problem is it's easier to play the numbers game and put in the 3 litre V6.
I got my Asus GeForce 7300GS HDMI card over six weeks ago! And this is in England where we're normally well behind the times :) I'm sure they'd been out for months before also. I'd spent a couple of months waiting for my Sharp LC37XD1E TV to appear in stock, and I'm sure HDMI cards were available way back then.
Great picture quality though - definitely the way forwards for HTPCs.
I work in warehouse automation, where there are plenty of off the shelf solutions, but none of them can really be tailored to efficiently meet the needs of particular customers (much like ERP systems). We provide a base system customised to the needs of the warehouse much more cheaply than a product designed to work off the shelf.
As technology improves, the amount of functionality that can be added to our core system increases. I support systems written back to 12 years ago, and you can see the progression where what we did then would be possible for off the shelf software now - our own core systems would handle it with a couple of weeks work. But they'd miss out on a lot of optimisation of processes and when the installations cost millions a year in running costs, that optimisation is well worth the cost.
This is the nature of the industry - permanently moving towards off-the-shelf software, but I don't expect it to finish that process any time soon. We've just started to move to a new level of that with open source, where really standard software gets easy enough that volunteers can supply it for free. Off-the-shelf vendors need to keep moving ahead of the open source advances. Bespoke software houses needs to move ahead of off-the-shelf applications.
The only 'dead' ones are those standing still.
Oh come on that's ridiculous. Clearly many of those lost users would also have told their friends about the software - I'd suggest tripling the damages from your conservative estimate.
The credit card companies are actually very good with this over here, and are often a lot of help for purchases of any size, well beyond their legal obligations. Our customer services are not always great over here but credit cards are one of the biggest exceptions I have found to this.
I suspect a lot of the other applications, including OpenOffice, didn't go Java because they had a large installed base of C/C++ they didn't want to give up
OpenOffice didn't go Java because it's not an open source solution. Some aspects are open and much Java stuff is free as in beer, but overall it is Sun's proprietary closed software. I've done a bit of work on OpenOffice in the past, only little bugfixes etc. but spent enough time reading the mailing lists to know many of the developers feel quite strongly about even the few small Java components in the software.
I think one of the big problems with desktop apps and applets is the overall look and feel of the standard Java GUI libraries (AWT and Swing). It's just horrible. AWT is lacking a lot of features, and Swing is slooooow. Neither looks as polished as either Windows / Gnome / KDE / OSX / pretty much any alternative standard look and feels. I notice you mentioned using Eclipse - I also use this and it really shows how much better Java would be if the SWT libraries were the standard for GUIs. I'm not a full-time Java programmer, so unfortunately have never learnt the SWT libraries for my own apps, I just use the pig and lipstick approach of Swing with J-Goodies Plastic XP theme. Most of the stuff I do in Java just doesn't have an interface. For server-side work, everything feels really thought through. Basics like the Collections classes and higher level stuff like the SAX for XML make server side work a joy. Swing code looks equally nice, but the end result just isn't there.
A non-mathematician has no shot at proving FLT or Poincare or the Riemann hypothesis.
I think the point is that with super-abundant resources, there would simply be more mathematicians. At present, intelligent people who would have a shot are going into fields like business, law, accountancy - fields where they can make money now. Maths can't compete with the salaries here, and unless you prove one of the dozen problems with a giant award waiting, you're not going to be a millionaire.
If resources were enough that this just didn't matter, I think you'd naturally get a lot more people involved in this sort of thinking profession with no guaranteed payoff at the end.
Not sure if this can really be true, but it does appear that the guy genuinely is the head of customer services. Regardless of whether it's a free service or not I think a company that intentionally behaves with that attitude deserves all it gets. It's free because they're getting advertising revenue, so they're being paid indirectly.
Hotmail did similar stuff to me which was very annoying and lost me a few years of email. I've just moved to using Gmail instead. My hotmail account is still used a lot but not much important stuff happens there - it's just for stuff where I expect to be spammed.
Remember the amount of work involved in this for the employer. Unless they're big enough to have HR staff that know their way around the system, it can cost quite a lot of time/money. Does EU foreigner mean foreigner from inside the EU, or from outside it? There shouldn't be too much difficulty if you're from the EU here in the UK.
I'm not sure what it is essential for the employer to do for foreign employees. We have a couple of Chinese people at my workplace and I was under the impression they had sorted out work permits themselves - it's a small company without an HR department. I think the US has some sort of requirements for foreign workers that the employer has to sponsor them but I don't think it's true of the UK.
I was actually going to mention something along these lines but decided to keep my post short. This is what I meant by getting a high def player into homes ahead of demand. As these people buy a new TV, they'll look into it enough to know that they've now got a high def TV (can't really buy a 'low' def TV anymore), and hey, they've already got a nice new high def player to go with it. No reason to even look at HD-DVD - before they spend that money they'll ask what extra they get compared to Blu-Ray and the answer just won't be compelling enough to try it.
Sony does have deep pockets. Remember that PS3 is currently hurting their profit margins, but they are still making profits - PS2 is continuing to bring in the money while XBox is now mostly dead for Microsoft. Their TV line is also hugely popular right now. For the first time, they've got a genuinely good range of LCD TVs that may restore some of the dominance they lost in the switch from CRTs.
I'd like to know the sort of royalties they will make on both games and Blu-Ray technology. If it's high enough, maybe they really can afford to drop the price. Microsoft only has one of those revenue streams coming in - AFAIK they are supporting HD-DVD but have no stake in the hardware technology.
Also, Microsoft has the home advantage in the US, so this will skew sales figures somewhat. Europe is a bigger market and a level playing field for the companies. When the console launches over here, I'd expect sales figures to be looking better.
Just for a moment, forget the consumer (everyone else is doing it...)
Whatever your feelings re PS3, you know it's going to sell 10 million units plus in a short time. In the meantime, only relatively small numbers of consumers are actually buying either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray players. DVD is good enough for most. Although the PS3 isn't primarily a Blu-Ray player, it does have that feature.
So when you're a movie studio or retailer and looking at the current / expected install base of HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray capable players over the next year or so, Blu-Ray is the only way to go. The PS3 is putting high definition playback into homes ahead of the mainstream demand. I read last week (Ars Technica I think) that total sales of Blu-Ray plus HD-DVD standalone players were around 700,000 in the US so far. PS3 alone is probably past that by now.
Standalone players are likely to sell more discs per unit than PS3s, but I'd guess many people with $600 to spend on a console will also grab a few Blu-Ray discs to try out.
So many good points there. Although somehow the reports say public transport is getting better I only ever see it getting worse with most services being cut back to run less regularly and many cut entirely - the village I grew up in now has only one bus an hour, down from around 6 when I was a kid. I do cycle to work, but most of the bike lanes are pointless - two sections are only 10 metres long, another is right outside peoples houses so it's just full of parked cars. House prices are now so high that even with a well paying job, I'm looking at moving half an hour drive from work to be able to afford more than a terrace. I'm already signed up to the petition and hope plenty more people do.
It's always been Googlemail here in the UK, but I still got a gmail address - I don't think it was ever made difficult to get gmail.com here - I seem to remember I just had to pick which I wanted.
Caught red handed. I was wondering that also :)
Take a look at Anapod explorer. It's not a free solution, but it works. iTunes is just a different interface than windows explorer - there's nothing horrid about it and nothing preventing you from using another interface.
That's only really a solution where you have multiple servers for the same services. In a lot of cases you'll have one server for services X and Y and another for Z.
I'd mod that interesting if I wasn't already posting on this thread :)
I can't find an awful lot of information on how it's implemented, but it seems designed to stop wholesale bypass of the DRM scheme (i.e. copy every bit of the disc from source to target, which gives you a copy with full DRM etc. without ever breaking the DRM). My guess would be that certain details of the volume key would tell the player to expect certain details in the ROM Mark.
I can't imagine this working on a disc with no DRM, simply because that would stop the disc being used for HD camcorders etc or just for archiving your own footage from other sources. Particularly with Blu-Ray debuting as a rewritable format, this is obviously a market they are after.
I occasionally do the opposite of this for my media centre - download a 1.4GB AVI because it's easier than ripping the DVD. To rip the DVD, I've got to either just rip the raw files which takes a lot of HD space, or I've got to know a lot more about the encoding options - my rips from DVD to XVID have always been poor quality compared to what is available online. Looking at the BBC HD stuff, it seems HD can be compressed to ~ 3-4 GB / hour while retaining most of the quality. The 1080 demos available from the divx.com website are also stunning at those sort of bitrates.
Unfortunately I've not yet seen any 20Mb/sec 'full' bitrate HD stuff yet. I've just bought a 1080p TV and I will buy in to the Blu-Ray / HD-DVD stuff, but not to the DRM side (same as for DVD). I am against piracy as it is clearly not morally OK, but defeating the hideously annoying uses to which DRM is being put does give me a nice warm feeling. While I can agree the copyright owner technically can impose whatever restrictions they like, I don't seem to remember ever agreeing to such restrictions when buying DVDs, and I don't think anyone can have any moral objection to format shifting and skipping copyright warnings.
The last straw for me on DRM was trying to watch my new Donnie Darko DVD while on the exercise bike. I got to see an unskippable copyright warning in English, then French, German, Italian, Spanish and even Suomi (Finnish!!! - at least I could understand one or two words from the other languages), each one shown for what seemed the best part of a minute. Following that there was a long video featuring a pirate with a branding iron that must have been a couple more minutes long, followed by scrolling notices and warnings from FACT. When the film eventually started, the timer on the exercise bike was already showing 10 minutes and 30 seconds and I was feeling quite tired and very annoyed.
I don't understand the point of revoking a hacked key. Now the key has been found and discs have been hacked, the output of the process is an unencrypted file with no key. Until something like AnyDVD comes out that just silently and automatically strips encryption on the fly, the primary use of the program will be to get unencrypted content onto P2P networks.
Why bother revoking the key? I must be missing something. Sure, don't use the same key on future discs, but pirated copies will have no encryption - key revocation only seems to affect legitimate users of the disc.
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten, DRM isn't about piracy...
Interesting comment because I've not found that to be true. Our standard analogue TV is not upto DVD standards of course, but Sky Digital / Freeview is really good - in theory it's a better resolution compared to DVD - PAL is 576 lines compared to only 480 on a DVD. I would say films on Sky movies are easily DVD quality - maybe I've just got a cheap DVD player.
The US has a lower quality standard definition (NTSC) which is one reason why they are so far ahead of us in jumping to HD TV. My new 1080p TV should be arriving fairly soon, so I'll have to compare Sky to DVD on that.
Grammer nazis? Good job there's no spelling nazis around.