I'd also think you could use wake-on-lan to get the lightweight to wake the heavyweight either at predetermined times, or on certain events that would require the heavyweight.
CD-ROM Mode 1, usually used for computer data, divides the 2352 byte data area defined by the Red Book standards into 12 bytes of synchronisation information, 4 bytes of header data, 2048 bytes of user data and 288 bytes of error correction and detection codes. These codes help prevent the data from becoming corrupted, which could lead to errors for executable data.
This means on a 700 MB CD, you have ~840MB of space. Audio CDs use this extra space because data corruption isn't too significant (just a blip in the audio), but with data CDs you'd rarely get a successful CD without any redundancy.
So 1.8 GB? Not a chance. But there is some redundance.
Nobody is actually guilt of anything until the courts say so.
Nobody is legally guilty of anything until a court says so. My point was that if they had to pay legal fees for everyone they dropped a case or lost against, they'd make damn sure they have a legitimate case that they have a good probability of winning.
The problem I have with that is that it would be even more prohibitive of individuals suing large entities. I would assume there'd have to be some flat rate, otherwise a corporation would say "We've had a legal team of fifty lawyers working around the clock on this case, you owe us $2.2 million dollars, which will be reimbursed if you win your case."
Just to play devil's advocate, how many people actually buy DVDs? I watch probably 50-75 movies a year, most of which come from a subscription to Blockbuster Online. How is this machine supposed to distinguish between movies that I own and movies that I rent? If I could get a device like this, I could get my three DVDs a week, copy them to my device, take them to blockbuster, get three more movies, copy those to the device, return them to the store. A few days later, I get three more movies, and the process repeats. I build up my movie collection incredibly quickly at a cost close to buying one movie per month.
Personally, I think such a device would be great. I have a media center PC, and I would love to be able to load every movie I own onto it and access them all by remote. But this is one case where I think DRM would be appropriate: have a flag that identifies disks as rentals, and refuse to copy them. I'm all for being able to do whatever you want with media that you own, but I love the rental industry, and I suspect they'd be in trouble if people could copy their DVDs freely.
I wouldn't be too concerned about people copying movies from friends - there may wind up being three or four copies for every one sold, but one if rentals could be copied, there would likely be dozens of copies for every one sold. This is where there is a distinction between being able to rip CDs and being able to rip DVDs: there is a huge rental industry for DVDs, the same can't be said for CDs.
The primary purpose of the iTunes music store is to generate content to help sell iPods. If it becomes legal to copy DVDs to computers (and iPods), I wouldn't be surprised to see iTunes allow the ripping of DVDs to an iPod compatible for mat.
They can only maintain the environment of fear if the media conglomerates they pay publish the information they want rather than the "little guy hero" stories that have been showing up here lately.
Not really. It may generate enough fear to prevent people from file sharing, but I'd hope someone would spend a couple hundred on a lawyer consultation before settling for several thousand. A lawyer (at least a half decent one) is going to research actual case records, rather than listening to the media conglomerates. Media conglomerates may get them somewhere towards preventing file sharing, but it's not going to get them too far when it comes to actual suits.
The RIAA end game is good. Stories like this just help it along.
Not really. The RIAA would certainly like to create an environment of fear, however if they lose cases and have to pay the defendants legal fees, more people will be willing to go to court. They can only maintain their environment of fear if they're winning their cases or getting settlements.
Our court system should punish frivolous lawsuits for how much it is costing the government.
Not just for how much it's costing the government, but for how much it's costing innocent defendants. I think any time the RIAA loses a case or drops a case they should have to pay legal fees for the defendants. I think you'd see a sharp drop in frivolous suits. They may still take a few cases to court, but they'll spend more time making sure the accused are actually guilty.
Windows is still installed. It doesn't charge on Windows, and doesn't charge after shutting down from Windows. It does charge on Linux, and does charge after shutting down Linux. I have no idea what the problem is. I suspect re-installing windows would get it working, but she's content with Linux.
If you've actually read the article, HP is saying they want the user to restore Windows before they will repair the system. To me this seems reasonable. If the keyboard works fine under Windows, it's a software problem and HP is under no obligation to trouble shoot it for her. If she re-installs Windows and the problem persists, they'll honor the warranty.
It may seem like something like this has to be a hardware problem - and it probably is. But I've seen things I was absolutely certain were hardware issues turn out to be software. My girlfriend has a Dell Laptop. A few weeks after the warranty expired, it quit charging her battery, even when off. I tried all sorts of things to get the battery to charge, I called Dell's tech support, posted on several forums, and eventually concluded that this was a motherboard problem and she was out of luck. A few months later, she decided she wanted to try out Linux - her anti-virus had just expired and she saw that I was quite happy with Kubuntu. When I put in the Live CD to install, I noticed the battery was charging. For whatever reason, her laptop's battery will charge under Linux, but not under Windows.
My point is, software problems can appear to be hardware problems. Sometimes switching operating systems will fix this. If I were the customer in question, my first step would be to try another Live CD. If the keyboard works fine on the live CD, I'd assume the problem was somewhere in my installation. If it still had problems, I'd back up my data, restore the computer to factory settings, and ship it back.
I don't see why people expect HP to support the computer without first being able to verify that the problem is unrelated to some third party software that they have no control over.
Personally, my switch to linux went something like this:
I heard about this great web browser that was more secure than IE and had lots of cool plugins, so I switched to Firefox.
I got fed up with Office XP crashing all the time, so I switched to OpenOffice.
I got fed up with all the obtrusive ads from AIM, so I switched to Gaim.
I got fed up with inconsistencies in windows media player, so I switched to VLC (for video).
My anti-virus came up for renewal. It was $30 for a year. The only software I used by this time that wasn't on Linux was iTunes, and Amarok does everything I need. Rather than fork over $30, I made a rather smooth transition to Linux. Some months later, my girlfriend followed suit (it's worth noting, she asked me to help her switch, there wasn't much prodding on my part).
Introducing people to open source, cross platform applications lets people make one adaptation at a time. Eventually there may come a time where switching to Linux seems easier than keeping Windows. If you try and switch someone to Linux all at once, you're likely to fail. If you get them to use cross platform apps first, the switch to Linux isn't too big of a leap.
No, other news would be 2007 Toyota Camry is selling better than the 2001 Toyota Camry did. The point here is that Vista is selling better than XP did when it came out. That's an interesting spin though, since sales are 15% higher in a market that has nearly doubled in size.
I agree. I can get a 4 GB iPhone for $499, or I could get a 4 GB iPod nano for $199 and a motorola Q for $199, and get about the same functionality for $101 less. Alternatively, I could get a 30 GB iPod with video for $249, still saving $51 from the iPhone but getting much more storage.
I might consider an iPhone if they release a 20-30GB version without adding much cost. My music library is about 11 GB, and I'm not going to pay out the nose to consolidate two devices, then have to leave three quarters of my music library on the computer.
I think the real problem is the judicial system that doesn't give poor people a fighting chance.
Not too many cases actually get to court. Most people settle out of court before giving the judicial system an opportunity to give them a fighting chance. There are a few cases coming up in which defendants may be getting reparations from the RIAA. If this happens, there will be more incentive to go to court rather than settling ahead of time. If even half of the accused let the RIAA take them to court, and a tenth of those get legal fees handed to them, the RIAA will be much more cautious about their wild accusations.
From some other cases of people trying to get refunds on XP I've read, vendors will often try to refund the customer something on the order of $10, claiming that's all it's worth. I don't know what the basis for that claim is, but I've heard it's a common way out of refunding customers for their Windows purchase.
This page details some experiences of returning XP to dell.
Personally, I've built my desktops much cheaper than I could buy them with Windows, and I bought my last laptop from System76.com, which sells laptops with Ubuntu (my distro of choice) pre-installed. It might have been cheaper to buy a Dell and get a refund, but this way I know the hardware is well supported under Linux.
Interesting. I'm a college student and do some free-lance web design for grad students with my extra time. On two different projects, I've been introduced to my client by e-mail, discussed what they need the site to do, negotiated a price, delivered the finished product all by e-mail. In one case, I picked up the check in person - meeting my client for the first time. In the other case the client sent a check through campus mail and I never met them in person.
Please, allow me to direct you to the Bill of Rights. The 10th amendment states:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people."
I won't argue with you there. I think the federal government is legislating far beyond what they should as outlined within the constitution. Most of the legislation they're passing these days isn't actually forced on the states, but uses taxation and distribution of funds to manhandle states into accepting the laws. However my point stands that legitimate legislation on the federal level overrules legislation on the state level (as does illegitimate legislation in practice, but that's another issue).
Why listen to the people when don't want to?
I'm not entirely sure what that means, but it seems to me the question should be "Why ask the people when you're not going to listen?" My point was, if this had been a real election, rather than an advisory vote, I have no doubt that the citizens' decision would have been upheld, but it was an advisory vote.
the government is so far removed from the ppl they don't even try to make it look legit anymore.
Do you have any idea what you're talking about? First, nobody told the voters they got to choose the law, they simply got to advise the council. If they're not happy with the way the council took their advice, next election they can replace the council.
it would not matter if an entire state voted to allow medical weed, the feds just ignore it.
State != feds. If a state has a law contradicting a federal law, the federal law overrules. By definition, the fed ignores state laws - it's not their job to enforce them, and federal laws take priority. This was a county level law. Corruption in one county (and I'm not saying this is a case of corruption) is hardly evidence of corruption on a state or federal level.
For instance, here's a comparison of Linux and Windows boot times; it shows that in all but ONE of the tests (Windows with antivirus software installed using 96MBs of RAM) Windows trounces OpenSUSE and Linspire in boot times.
That chart compares two of the most bloated distros and is nearly a year and a half old. I use Kubuntu (admittedly not the most streamlined distro around), and I've timed boots at 45 seconds. A slackware or gentoo install could put that to shame. My Windows install, having turned off any unnecessary startup options, takes about 2 minutes to a usable desktop - a significant improvement from the 5 minutes it took before tweaking the startup options (something the average user wouldn't know how to do).
But honestly, boot time is the last thing I concern myself with so long as I can hibernate and suspend. On either OS, I reboot maybe once a week, the rest of the time is hibernate and suspend.
Um. Here's a little clue for you. CELERON chip owner = MORON BUYER.
It almost pains me to dignify this with a response, but I'd like to state the reason I have a celeron chip is that I don't need anything more. I bought the laptop with the intentions of using it to take notes, and compile some code for my classes. Occasionally I'll use it to play a video, music, or a flash game, but that's it. When I'm at home, the laptop is off and charging, and I use my P4 with hyperthreading and my Pentium D. A moron is the guy who pays hundreds to upgrade to a Core Duo when a celeron does everything they need.
I agree, I was kind of scratching my head on that one. As a college student, the past several jobs I've had were times I knew I'd be available for x amount of time. I've gotten jobs every summer break, every winter break, and one spring break - employment for three months, three weeks, and one week respectively. I knew I wasn't going to be available after that time, and I didn't want to mislead my potential employers.
It's easy to see a college student being available for such periods of time, but I can see other times temporary positions would also be practical. If someone is only going to be available for a year, it's probably best for both parties if they're in a job intended for someone who will be around a year. If I were desperate for a job, and Google was offering a one year position, I'd certainly keep in mind that it was a one year position, and I might hope to prove myself and get rehired after the year was up, but I'd hardly fault Google for only needing someone for a year - so long as they're making it clear up front.
Some of the other practices mentioned here might be a little bit more unfair to employees, but I'd hardly call offering temporary jobs a sign of a bad employer.
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I'd also think you could use wake-on-lan to get the lightweight to wake the heavyweight either at predetermined times, or on certain events that would require the heavyweight.
This means on a 700 MB CD, you have ~840MB of space. Audio CDs use this extra space because data corruption isn't too significant (just a blip in the audio), but with data CDs you'd rarely get a successful CD without any redundancy.
So 1.8 GB? Not a chance. But there is some redundance.
Nobody is legally guilty of anything until a court says so. My point was that if they had to pay legal fees for everyone they dropped a case or lost against, they'd make damn sure they have a legitimate case that they have a good probability of winning.
The problem I have with that is that it would be even more prohibitive of individuals suing large entities. I would assume there'd have to be some flat rate, otherwise a corporation would say "We've had a legal team of fifty lawyers working around the clock on this case, you owe us $2.2 million dollars, which will be reimbursed if you win your case."
Personally, I think such a device would be great. I have a media center PC, and I would love to be able to load every movie I own onto it and access them all by remote. But this is one case where I think DRM would be appropriate: have a flag that identifies disks as rentals, and refuse to copy them. I'm all for being able to do whatever you want with media that you own, but I love the rental industry, and I suspect they'd be in trouble if people could copy their DVDs freely.
I wouldn't be too concerned about people copying movies from friends - there may wind up being three or four copies for every one sold, but one if rentals could be copied, there would likely be dozens of copies for every one sold. This is where there is a distinction between being able to rip CDs and being able to rip DVDs: there is a huge rental industry for DVDs, the same can't be said for CDs.
That one was somewhat significant. If someone wants to find said device, the misspelling would be prohibitive.
The primary purpose of the iTunes music store is to generate content to help sell iPods. If it becomes legal to copy DVDs to computers (and iPods), I wouldn't be surprised to see iTunes allow the ripping of DVDs to an iPod compatible for mat.
Not really. It may generate enough fear to prevent people from file sharing, but I'd hope someone would spend a couple hundred on a lawyer consultation before settling for several thousand. A lawyer (at least a half decent one) is going to research actual case records, rather than listening to the media conglomerates. Media conglomerates may get them somewhere towards preventing file sharing, but it's not going to get them too far when it comes to actual suits.
Not really. The RIAA would certainly like to create an environment of fear, however if they lose cases and have to pay the defendants legal fees, more people will be willing to go to court. They can only maintain their environment of fear if they're winning their cases or getting settlements.
Windows is still installed. It doesn't charge on Windows, and doesn't charge after shutting down from Windows. It does charge on Linux, and does charge after shutting down Linux. I have no idea what the problem is. I suspect re-installing windows would get it working, but she's content with Linux.
That was my first thought.
It may seem like something like this has to be a hardware problem - and it probably is. But I've seen things I was absolutely certain were hardware issues turn out to be software. My girlfriend has a Dell Laptop. A few weeks after the warranty expired, it quit charging her battery, even when off. I tried all sorts of things to get the battery to charge, I called Dell's tech support, posted on several forums, and eventually concluded that this was a motherboard problem and she was out of luck. A few months later, she decided she wanted to try out Linux - her anti-virus had just expired and she saw that I was quite happy with Kubuntu. When I put in the Live CD to install, I noticed the battery was charging. For whatever reason, her laptop's battery will charge under Linux, but not under Windows.
My point is, software problems can appear to be hardware problems. Sometimes switching operating systems will fix this. If I were the customer in question, my first step would be to try another Live CD. If the keyboard works fine on the live CD, I'd assume the problem was somewhere in my installation. If it still had problems, I'd back up my data, restore the computer to factory settings, and ship it back.
I don't see why people expect HP to support the computer without first being able to verify that the problem is unrelated to some third party software that they have no control over.
I heard about this great web browser that was more secure than IE and had lots of cool plugins, so I switched to Firefox.
I got fed up with Office XP crashing all the time, so I switched to OpenOffice.
I got fed up with all the obtrusive ads from AIM, so I switched to Gaim.
I got fed up with inconsistencies in windows media player, so I switched to VLC (for video).
My anti-virus came up for renewal. It was $30 for a year. The only software I used by this time that wasn't on Linux was iTunes, and Amarok does everything I need. Rather than fork over $30, I made a rather smooth transition to Linux. Some months later, my girlfriend followed suit (it's worth noting, she asked me to help her switch, there wasn't much prodding on my part).
Introducing people to open source, cross platform applications lets people make one adaptation at a time. Eventually there may come a time where switching to Linux seems easier than keeping Windows. If you try and switch someone to Linux all at once, you're likely to fail. If you get them to use cross platform apps first, the switch to Linux isn't too big of a leap.
No, other news would be 2007 Toyota Camry is selling better than the 2001 Toyota Camry did. The point here is that Vista is selling better than XP did when it came out. That's an interesting spin though, since sales are 15% higher in a market that has nearly doubled in size.
I might consider an iPhone if they release a 20-30GB version without adding much cost. My music library is about 11 GB, and I'm not going to pay out the nose to consolidate two devices, then have to leave three quarters of my music library on the computer.
Not too many cases actually get to court. Most people settle out of court before giving the judicial system an opportunity to give them a fighting chance. There are a few cases coming up in which defendants may be getting reparations from the RIAA. If this happens, there will be more incentive to go to court rather than settling ahead of time. If even half of the accused let the RIAA take them to court, and a tenth of those get legal fees handed to them, the RIAA will be much more cautious about their wild accusations.
Based on the experience I had with ReactOS in a VM, it probably gives a bluescreen.
This page details some experiences of returning XP to dell.
Personally, I've built my desktops much cheaper than I could buy them with Windows, and I bought my last laptop from System76.com, which sells laptops with Ubuntu (my distro of choice) pre-installed. It might have been cheaper to buy a Dell and get a refund, but this way I know the hardware is well supported under Linux.
Interesting. I'm a college student and do some free-lance web design for grad students with my extra time. On two different projects, I've been introduced to my client by e-mail, discussed what they need the site to do, negotiated a price, delivered the finished product all by e-mail. In one case, I picked up the check in person - meeting my client for the first time. In the other case the client sent a check through campus mail and I never met them in person.
I won't argue with you there. I think the federal government is legislating far beyond what they should as outlined within the constitution. Most of the legislation they're passing these days isn't actually forced on the states, but uses taxation and distribution of funds to manhandle states into accepting the laws. However my point stands that legitimate legislation on the federal level overrules legislation on the state level (as does illegitimate legislation in practice, but that's another issue).
I'm not entirely sure what that means, but it seems to me the question should be "Why ask the people when you're not going to listen?" My point was, if this had been a real election, rather than an advisory vote, I have no doubt that the citizens' decision would have been upheld, but it was an advisory vote.
Do you have any idea what you're talking about? First, nobody told the voters they got to choose the law, they simply got to advise the council. If they're not happy with the way the council took their advice, next election they can replace the council.
State != feds. If a state has a law contradicting a federal law, the federal law overrules. By definition, the fed ignores state laws - it's not their job to enforce them, and federal laws take priority. This was a county level law. Corruption in one county (and I'm not saying this is a case of corruption) is hardly evidence of corruption on a state or federal level.
That chart compares two of the most bloated distros and is nearly a year and a half old. I use Kubuntu (admittedly not the most streamlined distro around), and I've timed boots at 45 seconds. A slackware or gentoo install could put that to shame. My Windows install, having turned off any unnecessary startup options, takes about 2 minutes to a usable desktop - a significant improvement from the 5 minutes it took before tweaking the startup options (something the average user wouldn't know how to do).
But honestly, boot time is the last thing I concern myself with so long as I can hibernate and suspend. On either OS, I reboot maybe once a week, the rest of the time is hibernate and suspend.
It's easy to see a college student being available for such periods of time, but I can see other times temporary positions would also be practical. If someone is only going to be available for a year, it's probably best for both parties if they're in a job intended for someone who will be around a year. If I were desperate for a job, and Google was offering a one year position, I'd certainly keep in mind that it was a one year position, and I might hope to prove myself and get rehired after the year was up, but I'd hardly fault Google for only needing someone for a year - so long as they're making it clear up front.
Some of the other practices mentioned here might be a little bit more unfair to employees, but I'd hardly call offering temporary jobs a sign of a bad employer.