No, because it wasn't paid for by the taxpayers, it was paid for by the license holders. Two seperate sets of people, of course with a significant intersection.
Could there be some argument for license holders having some finger in the copyright holding pie? It's an interesting idea....I suspect it would backfire. The license is not the BBCs only source of income - they make a lot from international sales and domestic DVD sales. Both of those could be hurt significantly from relaxation of copyright controls.
It means we're going to have to lean to program in parallel
How many people are having to learn this? Is it really such a new thing?
Whenever there's an article on some new multi chip/multi core tech people always mention the difficulty of programming in more than one thread. I write server side Java for web apps, there's a heavily threaded environment for you. Each incoming request is it's own thread, and that's just a really basic tomcat style setup. In our world, we have probably 7-800 threads running at any given time, over 12 CPUs. Once you get your head around it (which, in my case happened years ago at university) it's not really such a big deal. And of course, the performance gains are significant. What is also not mentioned often is the design improvements which are possible when you start thinking in multiple threads. IMHO, OO design really becomes significant only when you have more than one path - suddenly each object can do it's own thing, without having to be scheduled from some "controller".
I'm sure there are plenty of other people here doing similar work to me...so why is multi threading considered such a big leap? I'm not even sure it's desktop-based developers - according to windows my outlook currently has 15 threads, IE has 19, mcaffee virus scan has 18 - hell even winlogon has 20. Seems like windows devs have no problems with threads either.
In general Europeans jumped to wireless faster because they were disatisfied with their landline service, compared to Americans Speaking as a european who got his first (GSM) cell phone 12 years ago - crap. I was perfectly happy with my landline in all but one respect - it was attached to my house.
Having used the analogue cell phones which were common here in the US until fairly recently, I suggest they (and poor coverage) were the reason for slow pickup here.
He was noticeably dejected at the leaks. He had nothing left to surprise people with, it was all known and discussed beforehand./me plays world's smallest violin.
This is business. If all that can make him happy is announcing his latest way of seperating sheep-like consumers from their cash so he can buy another yacht, then his life is pretty fricking empty.
Given that there will never be another time in human history when no one has a gun, would you rather that only the people most likely to shoot you with their gun were able to carry?
That's a dumb, defeatist argument. May as well give up locking my car, becuase there will always be car thieves, and if they want to get in they will. Not only that, but it propagates the myth that having a gun will somehow prevent you from getting shot - nothing could be further from the truth. How many people are shot with their own gun? How many people shoot themselves accidentally? How many people would not be shot at all if they just handed over their wallet to the mugger rather than try to be a hero?
Oh, and stop making out like "human history" and ends in the US. The US is the ONLY western country I can think of where it is common for people to own guns, the ONLY ONE. And, it has by far the highest rate of gun deaths. Now, I'm not trying to infer causality here, it may be a coincidence. But it's one big fucking coincidence if you ask me.
If you want to reduce the number of gun deaths, reduce the number of guns. Period.
Fair enough, apologies if I came off harshly. I just wanted to clear up that misunderstanding - I have a lot of respect for Canon and am unhappy about the whole 300D firmware debacle and how people have used it to portray them as trying to con consumers.
Wow - you're right - that's a huge problem. I'm sure the engineers who built this didn't think of it. I mean... a "which card do you want to use" menu would just be crazy difficult to implement.
If a store asks me for ID I will never shop there again. I dont carry ID with me all the time, and I don't want to. I'm not a criminal and I resent being made to feel like one to buy something.
So what if someone does steal my card? It's not my liability (assuming I report it stolen). It's SUCH a non-issue.
The Microsoft Catalogue lists products which meet the "designed for" standards. This search should find Office 2003, note the "Designed For" logo to the right. You can do similar searches for other products (I checked Office XP) - everything I looked up was certified.
I think most people are not talking about on demand, they're talking about a PVR built into a cable STB, so it still has a hard drive, just like Tivo/ReplayTV, but simply replaces your existing STB like a DirecTivo.
The box is made by scientific atlanta, at least, that's what most of the cable companies I've dealt with are offering.
It's good to speak to someone from Tivo - I'm a big fan.
I used to live in the UK (where Tivo have to all intents and purposes closed down) and was one of the few die hard Tivo'ers. I had my box, hacked in a bigger HD, added the network card, TivoWeb, etc etc. When Sky+ came along I defended Tivo to the hilt - it _was_ better. The menus were better, the season passes worked better, it was much more friendly to non-techs.
So anyway, now I live in the US. I have cable TV (satellite isn't available in my building) and a cable PVR. Why don't I have a Tivo? Bunch of reasons:
No HD No 5.1 Single tuner Upfront cost is ~$200 vs $0 Monthly cost is $13 vs $10 (not a biggy)
Now I fully understand the technical reasons Tivo can't support HD, or multiple tuners (though digital audio seems easy). But as a user it's really hard to justify paying more for a box which doesn't do as much. Yes Tivo still wins out on interface, reliability, etc - but that isn't enough.
To Tivo: I wish you all the best, I would buy a Tivo in a heartbeat if it fixed the HD, audio and multiple tuner problems, but until then I can't see much of a future.
Of course the problem isn't new - what's new is the solution. And it's very clever - the useful bit is that it can find malware without having to know anythig about it - it just detects anything which is hiding.
That will work fine if you know what you're looking for. The approach taken by the application mentioned is cool because it will find nasty things without having to know about them - so even if a new rootkit gets released this will still find it.
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No, because it wasn't paid for by the taxpayers, it was paid for by the license holders. Two seperate sets of people, of course with a significant intersection.
Could there be some argument for license holders having some finger in the copyright holding pie? It's an interesting idea....I suspect it would backfire. The license is not the BBCs only source of income - they make a lot from international sales and domestic DVD sales. Both of those could be hurt significantly from relaxation of copyright controls.
I think this release is going to have trouble gaining much usage in the UK - the entire country has been left off the globe on the new wallpaper!
It means we're going to have to lean to program in parallel
How many people are having to learn this? Is it really such a new thing?
Whenever there's an article on some new multi chip/multi core tech people always mention the difficulty of programming in more than one thread. I write server side Java for web apps, there's a heavily threaded environment for you. Each incoming request is it's own thread, and that's just a really basic tomcat style setup. In our world, we have probably 7-800 threads running at any given time, over 12 CPUs. Once you get your head around it (which, in my case happened years ago at university) it's not really such a big deal. And of course, the performance gains are significant. What is also not mentioned often is the design improvements which are possible when you start thinking in multiple threads. IMHO, OO design really becomes significant only when you have more than one path - suddenly each object can do it's own thing, without having to be scheduled from some "controller".
I'm sure there are plenty of other people here doing similar work to me...so why is multi threading considered such a big leap? I'm not even sure it's desktop-based developers - according to windows my outlook currently has 15 threads, IE has 19, mcaffee virus scan has 18 - hell even winlogon has 20. Seems like windows devs have no problems with threads either.
In general Europeans jumped to wireless faster because they were disatisfied with their landline service, compared to Americans
Speaking as a european who got his first (GSM) cell phone 12 years ago - crap. I was perfectly happy with my landline in all but one respect - it was attached to my house.
Having used the analogue cell phones which were common here in the US until fairly recently, I suggest they (and poor coverage) were the reason for slow pickup here.
He was noticeably dejected at the leaks. He had nothing left to surprise people with, it was all known and discussed beforehand. /me plays world's smallest violin.
This is business. If all that can make him happy is announcing his latest way of seperating sheep-like consumers from their cash so he can buy another yacht, then his life is pretty fricking empty.
oh and before someone mentions switzerland, the situation is rather different there :)
Given that there will never be another time in human history when no one has a gun, would you rather that only the people most likely to shoot you with their gun were able to carry?
That's a dumb, defeatist argument. May as well give up locking my car, becuase there will always be car thieves, and if they want to get in they will. Not only that, but it propagates the myth that having a gun will somehow prevent you from getting shot - nothing could be further from the truth. How many people are shot with their own gun? How many people shoot themselves accidentally? How many people would not be shot at all if they just handed over their wallet to the mugger rather than try to be a hero?
Oh, and stop making out like "human history" and ends in the US. The US is the ONLY western country I can think of where it is common for people to own guns, the ONLY ONE. And, it has by far the highest rate of gun deaths. Now, I'm not trying to infer causality here, it may be a coincidence. But it's one big fucking coincidence if you ask me.
If you want to reduce the number of gun deaths, reduce the number of guns. Period.
How is this a good thing?
There will be less guns on the street. That is always a good thing.
Fair enough, apologies if I came off harshly. I just wanted to clear up that misunderstanding - I have a lot of respect for Canon and am unhappy about the whole 300D firmware debacle and how people have used it to portray them as trying to con consumers.
that firmware upgrade to the camera (Canon?) that made it as good as the super expensive model
It actually did no such thing. It activated a couple of modes which weren't normally available, but considerable differences remained between the two.
Errr...show me one significantly less. I'm on a pretty basic Cingular plan here and it works out at around $50.
You say that like it's a bad thing...
Well you could always get a real networked music player, like a Squeezebox.
My ears! They bleed! Seriously..WTF??
Shame it doesn't have a display...the iRiver remotes are great (I don't have one - I'm a Rio fanboy).
Wow - you're right - that's a huge problem. I'm sure the engineers who built this didn't think of it. I mean... a "which card do you want to use" menu would just be crazy difficult to implement.
If a store asks me for ID I will never shop there again. I dont carry ID with me all the time, and I don't want to. I'm not a criminal and I resent being made to feel like one to buy something.
So what if someone does steal my card? It's not my liability (assuming I report it stolen). It's SUCH a non-issue.
"patentable"? What have patents got to do with anything? We're talking DMCA and Copyright here.
Thankfully, no :)
Or indeed a sony PSP ($250) which will pretty much play quake, never mind doom.
Amusing, but utterly false.
The Microsoft Catalogue lists products which meet the "designed for" standards. This search should find Office 2003, note the "Designed For" logo to the right. You can do similar searches for other products (I checked Office XP) - everything I looked up was certified.
I think most people are not talking about on demand, they're talking about a PVR built into a cable STB, so it still has a hard drive, just like Tivo/ReplayTV, but simply replaces your existing STB like a DirecTivo.
The box is made by scientific atlanta, at least, that's what most of the cable companies I've dealt with are offering.
It's good to speak to someone from Tivo - I'm a big fan.
I used to live in the UK (where Tivo have to all intents and purposes closed down) and was one of the few die hard Tivo'ers. I had my box, hacked in a bigger HD, added the network card, TivoWeb, etc etc. When Sky+ came along I defended Tivo to the hilt - it _was_ better. The menus were better, the season passes worked better, it was much more friendly to non-techs.
So anyway, now I live in the US. I have cable TV (satellite isn't available in my building) and a cable PVR. Why don't I have a Tivo? Bunch of reasons:
No HD
No 5.1
Single tuner
Upfront cost is ~$200 vs $0
Monthly cost is $13 vs $10 (not a biggy)
Now I fully understand the technical reasons Tivo can't support HD, or multiple tuners (though digital audio seems easy). But as a user it's really hard to justify paying more for a box which doesn't do as much. Yes Tivo still wins out on interface, reliability, etc - but that isn't enough.
To Tivo: I wish you all the best, I would buy a Tivo in a heartbeat if it fixed the HD, audio and multiple tuner problems, but until then I can't see much of a future.
Of course the problem isn't new - what's new is the solution. And it's very clever - the useful bit is that it can find malware without having to know anythig about it - it just detects anything which is hiding.
That will work fine if you know what you're looking for. The approach taken by the application mentioned is cool because it will find nasty things without having to know about them - so even if a new rootkit gets released this will still find it.