You must be kidding. Probably one of the very best things for the US would be to completely stop trade with China. It would immediately cut the trade deficit, and at the same time, cause a need for local goods, causing unemployment to drop almost over night.
As far as I know, there is no problem with very large files in NTFS, and I've created multiterabyte files. As for many little files, that isn't an issue with NTFS, but some NTFS implementations performed poorly with large numbers of files (and that goes back to Windows 95/NT 3.5/3.51/4.0).
Current implementations of NTFS drivers for Windows no longer have any issues with large number of files, especially if you turn off compatibility with legacy 8.3 filenames.
The problem with your line of thinking is that you seem to think that software and/or music is absolutely free to produce, which it isn't. It takes work of many individuals, often for many months, even years. You seem to be stuck on whether copyright infringement should be prosecuted as just a civil or criminal act.
Sorry, but I am all for making it a CRIMINAL act. You are correct in that there is no 1000 year old law that points specifically to copyright infringement. The concepts of recorded music and programs simply didn't exist 1000 years ago. That doesn't mean that it shouldn't be a criminal act with new laws. I am all for supporting those that create things for society and expect compensation in return. If it isn't worth the price for the song/software then don't use it. It really is that simple.
I could just as easily ask you to please STOP trying to downplay the significance of pirating. It DOES hurt those in the industry, and you can try and justify it all you want, but it won't change that fact no matter how hard you try.
So, if I hack into your bank account and transfer the balance of your account to mine, then that isn't theft because nothing physical was taken or needs to be replaced. Sorry, but that argument doesn't work.
I propose "Diamonds may not last forever, but it is likely it will last longer than your relationship to the person you are giving one to" be their new slogan.
More importantly, the short trip to first base causes many "programmers" to constantly run to first base, turn around and go home, rinse and repeat without ever really figuring out what the hell they are doing. They just keep churning out the same crap code that they don't fully understand and breaks in all sorts of ways when you do this, and then that.. now it breaks because they didn't understand it. Then they'll move on to the next project (or another company) and repeat the process until...well.. forever, cause the managers/HR people will continually hire the low-salary guy that will walk in and totally screw up their systems to save $.50.
Most of the time, I don't mind cause I get paid to clean up the mess these progtards make.
Negative. OS/2 didn't have anywhere near the hardware support that windows did. Especially printers and network cards, both of which were extremely important back then. In the enterprise, it was OS/2 vs Windows NT, and while OS/2 did have things that technically were superior, Windows NT was just more polished with a lot more hardware support than OS/2 did. Software packages also ran on Windows NT with little to no problems while it was often complicated in OS/2 and to get DOS apps to multitask correctly required modifying a bunch of.INI files that weren't really well documented (sound familiar?).
. There are 296 ccTLDs, so obviously it's not countless, I just counted them for you. Of which 295 can have.com,.edu,.gov,.org, etc subdomains, including.ch,.li,.ly, and.sc. The only ccTLD that is not allowed to have those subdomains is.us because it would be redundant to TLDs.com,.edu,.gov,.org which are US-only TLDs already. It is all explained in RFC 1480. For internet newbs, RFCs are what defines the protocols, etc on how the internet works. It's the definitive answer to all your internet protocols.
The RFC is what defines the internet, its protocols, and how it is defined to work. You can say.COM isn't a US-only domain, but that doesn't make it so.
RFC 1480 says differently..COM is a *US ONLY* domain. The fact that many companies abused it is irrelevant. It's also why.us is the only ccTLD that doesn't have.com,.edu,.org subdomains. RFC 1480 specificially disallows.com.us,.edu.us, and.org.us domains as being duplicates of the.com,.edu, and.org TLDs. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Hmm... I guess that's how you interpret things. Personally, I think the US should kick all the non-US bastards off their internet that they created, and let the rest of the world come up with their own internets that they can fuck up themselves.
So you are comparing an accident during wartime to an intentional act of aggression? Seeing as how 9/11 turned out perhaps the commander was just ahead of his time?
Laserdiscs didn't really start to take off commerically (if you can call it taking off) until 1985 or so. I had two different laserdisc players, one that was single sided, and later I bought one that play the other side without needing to flip it -- although there was still a 60 second "pause" while it switched sides. Later versions buffered enough so there wasn't a pause, but that was years later.
The normal release movies were all (usually) one disc (CLV). The collector editions were higher quality and came on multiple disks (CAV). For example my Aliens "Special Wide Collectors Edition" disks are 7 sides (4 disks) with the 7th side containing director commentary etc. Terminator 2 collector's edition is the same way. As for S-Video, I don't recall that being a problem. Everyone I knew that had a laserdisc also had a TV with a S-Video, and my VHS that I had bought previously also had S-Video. Although most of friends all had projection TV's (rear projection).
As for the players circa 1990, yes, would have most likely all been double sided players and quite possibly with caching by then. It's quite surprising just how well the technology actually was back then. A good laserdisc had 625 lines of resolution, which far surpassed DVDs (480 usually, 576 lines only if you reduced your framerate to 25fps) -- was virtually untouched until the final arrival of bluray almost 20 years later.
Oddly enough, I still have my laserdisc movies, all intact, but I threw my laserdisc player away a few months ago. I probably should throw the movies away too, just haven't had the heart to. T2 and aliens rocked on laserdisc. I should probably get the blurays of them and be done with it.
Not exactly. The older SSDs didn't do write leveling. Also, most OSs don't force a write to disk when a single byte in a sector changes (perhaps it does on linux, I don't know). Most SSDs also have write caching today so even if the OS was silly enough to request a write to disk, it would quickly get invalidated by the next request to write to the same sector before it even hit the flash portion of the SSD.
Lastly, even if you disregard all of that, then you also must realize that you don't need to do an erase if all the changes you are making are turning bits on. In that case, you just do a write instead of erase and write, and that doesn't wear out the SSD at all (I believe).
Also, there is nothing keeping the SSD from periodically moving data with low write counts to the high write count portions of the disk in the background in hopes that the semi-static data will remain semi-static.
Laserdisk was read-only. It was a product without a clear cut purpose. People bought VCRs so they could record shows and discovered rented movies. The laserdisk was doomed from the start.
It wasn't that Laserdisks were read-only that killed it. It was the size of the disks themselves. A high quality laserdisk movie could take up to 3 disks (and 2 sides), and the early players required you to get up and flip the disk.. Every 15 minutes. As storage capacity increased, you saw the laserdisk version 2, or the 5" laserdisk, which is more commonly called the DVD.
Most people don't record DVD movies on DVDs either, and yet they took off quite well. Same for bluray. Laserdisks would have become writable later if there was enough demand for them, and the technology stuck around long enough.
If you actually look at the population density in Sweden, the vast majority of the population is located in the southern Providences, and even within those, centered around a few major cities. To include the northern wasteland in the average population density is a disservice, and you might as well then include the area in the ocean between California and Hawaii as well for the United States. Because well, you know there are boats and stuff, drilling rigs, and other property where people live out there too.
Netflix seems to run just fine on my $99 Apple TV. I really don't want all that garbage *in* my TV anyhow, the technology changes too quickly. I change my TVs like every 10-15 years, but I'll toss the $99 box sitting in front of it every few years for a newer/better model.
But that really wasn't what this thread was about. It was about running in on linux for use on a desktop and/or laptop. If you want to discuss how netflix already runs in many TVs already, it might be better to start a new thread rather than jump over a discussion about netflix on linux for desktops thread.
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You must be kidding. Probably one of the very best things for the US would be to completely stop trade with China. It would immediately cut the trade deficit, and at the same time, cause a need for local goods, causing unemployment to drop almost over night.
As far as I know, there is no problem with very large files in NTFS, and I've created multiterabyte files. As for many little files, that isn't an issue with NTFS, but some NTFS implementations performed poorly with large numbers of files (and that goes back to Windows 95/NT 3.5/3.51/4.0).
Current implementations of NTFS drivers for Windows no longer have any issues with large number of files, especially if you turn off compatibility with legacy 8.3 filenames.
The problem with your line of thinking is that you seem to think that software and/or music is absolutely free to produce, which it isn't. It takes work of many individuals, often for many months, even years. You seem to be stuck on whether copyright infringement should be prosecuted as just a civil or criminal act.
Sorry, but I am all for making it a CRIMINAL act. You are correct in that there is no 1000 year old law that points specifically to copyright infringement. The concepts of recorded music and programs simply didn't exist 1000 years ago. That doesn't mean that it shouldn't be a criminal act with new laws. I am all for supporting those that create things for society and expect compensation in return. If it isn't worth the price for the song/software then don't use it. It really is that simple.
I could just as easily ask you to please STOP trying to downplay the significance of pirating. It DOES hurt those in the industry, and you can try and justify it all you want, but it won't change that fact no matter how hard you try.
So, if I hack into your bank account and transfer the balance of your account to mine, then that isn't theft because nothing physical was taken or needs to be replaced. Sorry, but that argument doesn't work.
Or it could be that supporting opera isn't worth the effort because of it's small marketshare, and really just how bad of a product it is.
I propose "Diamonds may not last forever, but it is likely it will last longer than your relationship to the person you are giving one to" be their new slogan.
Sorry, but 99% of the routers don't just support dyndns. Most routers I've used support more than just them, including the best selling routers.
More importantly, the short trip to first base causes many "programmers" to constantly run to first base, turn around and go home, rinse and repeat without ever really figuring out what the hell they are doing. They just keep churning out the same crap code that they don't fully understand and breaks in all sorts of ways when you do this, and then that.. now it breaks because they didn't understand it. Then they'll move on to the next project (or another company) and repeat the process until...well.. forever, cause the managers/HR people will continually hire the low-salary guy that will walk in and totally screw up their systems to save $.50.
Most of the time, I don't mind cause I get paid to clean up the mess these progtards make.
Negative. OS/2 didn't have anywhere near the hardware support that windows did. Especially printers and network cards, both of which were extremely important back then. In the enterprise, it was OS/2 vs Windows NT, and while OS/2 did have things that technically were superior, Windows NT was just more polished with a lot more hardware support than OS/2 did. Software packages also ran on Windows NT with little to no problems while it was often complicated in OS/2 and to get DOS apps to multitask correctly required modifying a bunch of .INI files that weren't really well documented (sound familiar?).
Well first, lets start with
countless ccTLDs
. There are 296 ccTLDs, so obviously it's not countless, I just counted them for you. Of which 295 can have .com, .edu, .gov, .org, etc subdomains, including .ch, .li, .ly, and .sc. The only ccTLD that is not allowed to have those subdomains is .us because it would be redundant to TLDs .com, .edu, .gov, .org which are US-only TLDs already. It is all explained in RFC 1480. For internet newbs, RFCs are what defines the protocols, etc on how the internet works. It's the definitive answer to all your internet protocols.
I realize that reading may just be beyond your capability, but if you try real hard, I'm sure some day you can become decent at it.
The RFC is what defines the internet, its protocols, and how it is defined to work. You can say .COM isn't a US-only domain, but that doesn't make it so.
.com isn't even meant to be U.S. TLD.
RFC 1480 says differently. .COM is a *US ONLY* domain. The fact that many companies abused it is irrelevant. It's also why .us is the only ccTLD that doesn't have .com, .edu, .org subdomains. RFC 1480 specificially disallows .com.us, .edu.us, and .org.us domains as being duplicates of the .com, .edu, and .org TLDs. Sorry to burst your bubble.
US government can seize your US-registered car
Actually yes. If "someone" is a police officer, or a photo radar.
.com isn't even meant to be U.S. TLD
Hmm... I guess that's how you interpret things. Personally, I think the US should kick all the non-US bastards off their internet that they created, and let the rest of the world come up with their own internets that they can fuck up themselves.
So you are comparing an accident during wartime to an intentional act of aggression? Seeing as how 9/11 turned out perhaps the commander was just ahead of his time?
You sir, are an idiot.
You do realize that VCRs pre-dated laserdiscs by 2 years, and really about 5 years before commercialization, right?
Laserdiscs didn't really start to take off commerically (if you can call it taking off) until 1985 or so. I had two different laserdisc players, one that was single sided, and later I bought one that play the other side without needing to flip it -- although there was still a 60 second "pause" while it switched sides. Later versions buffered enough so there wasn't a pause, but that was years later.
The normal release movies were all (usually) one disc (CLV). The collector editions were higher quality and came on multiple disks (CAV). For example my Aliens "Special Wide Collectors Edition" disks are 7 sides (4 disks) with the 7th side containing director commentary etc. Terminator 2 collector's edition is the same way. As for S-Video, I don't recall that being a problem. Everyone I knew that had a laserdisc also had a TV with a S-Video, and my VHS that I had bought previously also had S-Video. Although most of friends all had projection TV's (rear projection).
As for the players circa 1990, yes, would have most likely all been double sided players and quite possibly with caching by then. It's quite surprising just how well the technology actually was back then. A good laserdisc had 625 lines of resolution, which far surpassed DVDs (480 usually, 576 lines only if you reduced your framerate to 25fps) -- was virtually untouched until the final arrival of bluray almost 20 years later.
Oddly enough, I still have my laserdisc movies, all intact, but I threw my laserdisc player away a few months ago. I probably should throw the movies away too, just haven't had the heart to. T2 and aliens rocked on laserdisc. I should probably get the blurays of them and be done with it.
Not exactly. The older SSDs didn't do write leveling. Also, most OSs don't force a write to disk when a single byte in a sector changes (perhaps it does on linux, I don't know). Most SSDs also have write caching today so even if the OS was silly enough to request a write to disk, it would quickly get invalidated by the next request to write to the same sector before it even hit the flash portion of the SSD.
Lastly, even if you disregard all of that, then you also must realize that you don't need to do an erase if all the changes you are making are turning bits on. In that case, you just do a write instead of erase and write, and that doesn't wear out the SSD at all (I believe).
Also, there is nothing keeping the SSD from periodically moving data with low write counts to the high write count portions of the disk in the background in hopes that the semi-static data will remain semi-static.
Actually, neither can any bluray player, or DVD player.
Laserdisk was read-only. It was a product without a clear cut purpose. People bought VCRs so they could record shows and discovered rented movies. The laserdisk was doomed from the start.
It wasn't that Laserdisks were read-only that killed it. It was the size of the disks themselves. A high quality laserdisk movie could take up to 3 disks (and 2 sides), and the early players required you to get up and flip the disk.. Every 15 minutes. As storage capacity increased, you saw the laserdisk version 2, or the 5" laserdisk, which is more commonly called the DVD.
Most people don't record DVD movies on DVDs either, and yet they took off quite well. Same for bluray. Laserdisks would have become writable later if there was enough demand for them, and the technology stuck around long enough.
If you actually look at the population density in Sweden, the vast majority of the population is located in the southern Providences, and even within those, centered around a few major cities. To include the northern wasteland in the average population density is a disservice, and you might as well then include the area in the ocean between California and Hawaii as well for the United States. Because well, you know there are boats and stuff, drilling rigs, and other property where people live out there too.
Netflix seems to run just fine on my $99 Apple TV. I really don't want all that garbage *in* my TV anyhow, the technology changes too quickly. I change my TVs like every 10-15 years, but I'll toss the $99 box sitting in front of it every few years for a newer/better model.
But that really wasn't what this thread was about. It was about running in on linux for use on a desktop and/or laptop. If you want to discuss how netflix already runs in many TVs already, it might be better to start a new thread rather than jump over a discussion about netflix on linux for desktops thread.