Will such a huge amount of data really be useful? Depending on how its organized, if you have the logs of millions of users, will you realistically be able to sort through it all for whatever safety/prevention measures the government claims this is for?
Either way this is a huge violation of one's right to privacy.
Acting is a craft. For example, a dock worker (at least traditionally) was someone who had more worked out muscles and were able to control them well, knew the little tricks how to lift very heavy weights in such a way that he can do it all day.
Actors are people who either learn by one way or another how to control their face muscles or sometimes, are actually mutants that have their nerve system wired in such a way that they can control face muscles since birth. Really, it's not much more than that. Where is honesty in that?
These days, a dock worker drives a forklift. In the future, 'actors' will drive a -- mouse. The number of Digital Characters in movies is certainly going up, however, I for one will always pay to see a real person do "real" acting. I wouldn't like a future where all "actors" are just CG artists. And don't forget that some CG characters such as Gollum were acted out almost entirely by a real actor, Gollum wouldn't have been nearly as good without Andy Serkis.
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Truth be told, Joost is nothing like YouTube. Joost is all about TV-length programming, although it can show shorter clips and even feature-length films. Most importantly, Joost is focused on commercial video content, not the user creations that have made YouTube so popular. To wit, you cannot upload content to Joost, making it a "secure" distribution medium in the eyes of many in the entertainment industry. The ability for users to upload their own videos onto YouTube is a large part of it's appeal. The article admits that user creations have made YouTube popular, why would you want to get away from that? I guess to appease the big shot content owners. Additionally, I bet joe-end-user hasn't heard of Joost, whereas YouTube is mainstream.
In actual use in modern personal computers both SATA 3 Gbit/s and SATA 1.5 Gbit/s hard disk drives run at non-burst speeds comparable to earlier IDE interfaces (under 50 MB/s). Since the theoretical burst speeds marketed by drive manufacturers are rarely achieved, a smaller power and interface cable plus the ability to hot-plug are the most practical SATA benefits to everyday computing.
I think that it's fair to say that storage is the weak link in personal computing. Hard drives keep getting bigger, but they don't get that much faster. Plus, the more data you have, the faster you'll need to be able to sort through it. As far as burst transfer speed, the fastest SATA is at 300MB/s, which still isn't as fast as the fastest SCSI drives. Drive failure is also an issue, so hopefully some of these new storage technologies could increase speed, reliability, and storage-security.
However, the point is, many distros, such as Ubuntu, require 0 drivers to install (depending on your hardware).
Do you have any idea how ironic this sentence is? No.
OF COURSE it depends on your hardware! The number of drivers that are available for Vista at this point are small. Which comes back to my origional point that if Microsoft makes the transistion to Vista painful, Linux and OS X might gain market share.
I bet you could find a hardware configuration that will work completely off Vista's native driver cache as well, especially if you're happy with vanilla video and sound support. Agreed.
Anymore 3D acceleration is pretty much a must-have. Especially with newfangled things like Aero and XGL becoming the norm. Even basic tasks like moving windows around perform much, much better with acceleration. A 3D accelerated desktop is still a matter of preference, if it isn't please let me know what Linux distros come with XGL/Compiz/Beryl as the default. And to say Aero is the norm is silly. The install base is still quite low (it just came out for goodness sake), even if a large number of people tried to upgrade it's likely that their hardware is too old, and even if they have the right hardware they might not have Vista drivers for it. Which brings up my original point, that if Vista is hard to transition to, Competitors such as Linux and OS X can gain market share.
I bet if Microsoft made all their own hardware and then locked people into only using Vista on said hardware, it would be easy as pie to get Vista configured for the hardware. What an idea! The fact of the matter is they don't do this and Apple does, its a business model decision and if you take the path Microsoft did, you ought to make efforts to help hardware companies have drivers ready.
Except, of course, that the whole idea behind the PC is open hardware standards, vendor competition, and consumer choice. I don't know who (if anyone) defined what the idea is behind the PC. But I do prefer open hardware standards, vendor competition, and consumer choice, as well as open software, which is why I hope this helps out Linux.
This is good news for Linux and OS X. Installing Drivers is so 1998.
Yes, because no one ever has trouble getting a wifi card to work under Linux. Or printer drivers working under OSX. In fact, surprising though it may be to you, getting drivers to work is often one of the biggest difficulties of installing Linux.
Your dripping sarcasm is tiresome, however you make a point. I do know how difficult it can be to get a wireless card to work. However, the point is, many distros, such as Ubuntu, require 0 drivers to install (depending on your hardware). On my desktop the only drivers I would have had to install were video drivers if I wanted 3d acceleration. My point is, if Vista is more difficult to setup than Linux (certainly it's more difficult than OS X), there is a greater chance of end users trying out the alternatives.
I know RIAA is enemy #1 here on/., but please realize that their entire business model has evaporated, and they are evaporating too. The treatment here on/. is like whipping a dying horse.
I see the RIAA not as a dying horse. Horses are loyal and serve their owners. The RIAA is a Dragon that is hopefully dying, and I wouldn't whip it, I'd try to run it through.
Maybe that's a little over dramatic.
Until there is per song download service with DRM-Free mainstream Music (not just indy stuff), I'll probably keep complaining. Yeah, there is some good stuff on emusic, but often times I'll want to hear music I've heard in a movie, on TV, etc, and most of that music just isn't indy.
The greed of these companies is astounding. They are willing to tax anything that might possibly be used as a medium for Music, just to make sure they get their cut. I don't understand how self-centered and greedy some people can be.
I'd rather build a desktop myself, component by component, but you can get a decent Dell system for sub $400, and that includes windows, so if I could get that same system for $100 cheaper, or however much Dell has to pay per system for Windows, that would be sweet.
As I recall Apple said that they don't want to bring down cingular's network because Joe Enduser installed a custom application. I don't understand why that would be an issue personally.
What if humans are the cause of Global Warming? Aren't we all a natural phenomena? After all, we're no different from other animals, right? It could be natural that humans destroy the balance of the planet.
OK, I don't really believe any of the above, but it makes me question people who think we're no better than animals, and yet claim that we still have a responsibility to protect the planet.
Not everyone has a strong moral compass, and that's okay. Not everyone needs one. And in any case we know so little about how morals and such are internalized that we can't even study the subject objectively, let alone provide anyone with a procedure for how to strengthen theirs.
You just said morals can't be studied objectively without providing any supporting evidence. I could just as easily say that you can study morals objectively and we've both done little more than state our opinions. If you read the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle you might find that there are ways to study morals objectively.
Yes you can get rich without having morals. You can also be an Enron Exec and go to jail. Without Morals tragedies like Slavery and the Holocaust happen. People with the attitude that morals are irrelevant worry me.
If indeed IBM simply transferred two other workers who had actual sex on a desk (one assumes this occurred when someone could witness it, rather than in a private office late one night), it's going to be hard for them to justify firing this guy for engaging in otherwise legal activity even though it was using company resources. That's not to say this is age discrimination or some other malfeasance on the part of IBM, but the lack of consistency is troubling. Even if it was a private office, that sort of conduct on company property is inappropriate. Context is very important in these situations. The fact that looking at porn is "legal" is very dependent on context. Going an taking a shower at my house is legal, doing so without permission at someone else residence is not.
Why would you sue a company (and expect to win) when you were fired for violating a companies (reasonable) policies. The lawyer probably knows his client doesn't have a chance, but it milking this chap for legal fees.
I bet IP owners are going to love this. YouTube sets up a venue for what they'll perceive as piracy and then forces them to pay if they want their movies protected. Reminds me of Deus Ex, when VersaLife is making making the Virus that's killing everyone, and then manufactures the cure to Sell to everyone.
I think that whole PR can be summarized as, "What Steve Said, if followed, will put us out of business, he was wrong, media companies really do still need us to protect their content."
XP has only recently had the majority of it's major bugs ironed out, and by that I mean to a point where the OS is usable/not a virii-sponge, so why would the average user upgrade to vista?
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Will such a huge amount of data really be useful? Depending on how its organized, if you have the logs of millions of users, will you realistically be able to sort through it all for whatever safety/prevention measures the government claims this is for?
Either way this is a huge violation of one's right to privacy.
This is all just FUD, next you'll try to tell me that Jar Jar Binks had digitally added ears? Please.
Do you have any idea how ironic this sentence is? No. OF COURSE it depends on your hardware! The number of drivers that are available for Vista at this point are small. Which comes back to my origional point that if Microsoft makes the transistion to Vista painful, Linux and OS X might gain market share. I bet you could find a hardware configuration that will work completely off Vista's native driver cache as well, especially if you're happy with vanilla video and sound support.
Agreed. Anymore 3D acceleration is pretty much a must-have. Especially with newfangled things like Aero and XGL becoming the norm. Even basic tasks like moving windows around perform much, much better with acceleration. A 3D accelerated desktop is still a matter of preference, if it isn't please let me know what Linux distros come with XGL/Compiz/Beryl as the default. And to say Aero is the norm is silly. The install base is still quite low (it just came out for goodness sake), even if a large number of people tried to upgrade it's likely that their hardware is too old, and even if they have the right hardware they might not have Vista drivers for it. Which brings up my original point, that if Vista is hard to transition to, Competitors such as Linux and OS X can gain market share. I bet if Microsoft made all their own hardware and then locked people into only using Vista on said hardware, it would be easy as pie to get Vista configured for the hardware. What an idea! The fact of the matter is they don't do this and Apple does, its a business model decision and if you take the path Microsoft did, you ought to make efforts to help hardware companies have drivers ready. Except, of course, that the whole idea behind the PC is open hardware standards, vendor competition, and consumer choice.
I don't know who (if anyone) defined what the idea is behind the PC. But I do prefer open hardware standards, vendor competition, and consumer choice, as well as open software, which is why I hope this helps out Linux.
Yes, because no one ever has trouble getting a wifi card to work under Linux. Or printer drivers working under OSX. In fact, surprising though it may be to you, getting drivers to work is often one of the biggest difficulties of installing Linux.
Your dripping sarcasm is tiresome, however you make a point. I do know how difficult it can be to get a wireless card to work. However, the point is, many distros, such as Ubuntu, require 0 drivers to install (depending on your hardware). On my desktop the only drivers I would have had to install were video drivers if I wanted 3d acceleration. My point is, if Vista is more difficult to setup than Linux (certainly it's more difficult than OS X), there is a greater chance of end users trying out the alternatives.
This is good news for Linux and OS X. Installing Drivers is so 1998.
I see the RIAA not as a dying horse. Horses are loyal and serve their owners. The RIAA is a Dragon that is hopefully dying, and I wouldn't whip it, I'd try to run it through.
Maybe that's a little over dramatic.
Until there is per song download service with DRM-Free mainstream Music (not just indy stuff), I'll probably keep complaining. Yeah, there is some good stuff on emusic, but often times I'll want to hear music I've heard in a movie, on TV, etc, and most of that music just isn't indy.
The greed of these companies is astounding. They are willing to tax anything that might possibly be used as a medium for Music, just to make sure they get their cut. I don't understand how self-centered and greedy some people can be.
I'd rather build a desktop myself, component by component, but you can get a decent Dell system for sub $400, and that includes windows, so if I could get that same system for $100 cheaper, or however much Dell has to pay per system for Windows, that would be sweet.
As I recall Apple said that they don't want to bring down cingular's network because Joe Enduser installed a custom application. I don't understand why that would be an issue personally.
CNR seems very...business oriented. I don't see a lot of hardcore linux users adopting it.
What if humans are the cause of Global Warming? Aren't we all a natural phenomena? After all, we're no different from other animals, right? It could be natural that humans destroy the balance of the planet.
OK, I don't really believe any of the above, but it makes me question people who think we're no better than animals, and yet claim that we still have a responsibility to protect the planet.
Yeah right, those are all photoshopped!
The New Format War isn't going to be about Media formats, but which DRM will prevail, that is IF Apple tries to license FairPlay to other companies.
Not everyone has a strong moral compass, and that's okay. Not everyone needs one. And in any case we know so little about how morals and such are internalized that we can't even study the subject objectively, let alone provide anyone with a procedure for how to strengthen theirs.
You just said morals can't be studied objectively without providing any supporting evidence. I could just as easily say that you can study morals objectively and we've both done little more than state our opinions. If you read the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle you might find that there are ways to study morals objectively.
Yes you can get rich without having morals. You can also be an Enron Exec and go to jail. Without Morals tragedies like Slavery and the Holocaust happen. People with the attitude that morals are irrelevant worry me.
Why would you sue a company (and expect to win) when you were fired for violating a companies (reasonable) policies. The lawyer probably knows his client doesn't have a chance, but it milking this chap for legal fees.
I bet IP owners are going to love this. YouTube sets up a venue for what they'll perceive as piracy and then forces them to pay if they want their movies protected. Reminds me of Deus Ex, when VersaLife is making making the Virus that's killing everyone, and then manufactures the cure to Sell to everyone.
Lets start loading up the animals, two by two.
I think that whole PR can be summarized as, "What Steve Said, if followed, will put us out of business, he was wrong, media companies really do still need us to protect their content."
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Well then, if all I have to do is pirate some software to get free trip there...
XP has only recently had the majority of it's major bugs ironed out, and by that I mean to a point where the OS is usable/not a virii-sponge, so why would the average user upgrade to vista?