Why do you need Windows XP or Vista to play these discs, specifically the HD-DVD? The Toshiba players run Linux, therefore would already have all of the software necessary to play these discs, so why not sell it? It would be nice if they supported Linux from the start, especially since the software and drivers clearly exist and there is no extra work involved. It seems that at the very least, it would likely help to discourage the DRM cracking. It could also give HD a competitive edge on BD.
Sure, 'everyone profiles', that is until they get smart enough to realize that 9 times out of 10 they are completely off-base in their judgements. You can take a look at a person across the room and make up some set of assumptions about them based an the way they look, dress, and carry themselves, but try talking to them and you'll often feel foolish as you realize just how wrong you were.
And I agree with you that in many parts of the world intolerant and short-sighted religious beliefs contribute to the culture. Here in America, for example, the "Christian" culture has lead to many people being intolerant and short-sighted. We have many problems here with intolerance that are caused by the "Christian" community. For example, several of the times that I have been to church (Catholic, if you're wondering), I've heard a surmon about how the 'Gay's are going to burn in hell,' a sentiment that seems to have moved itself into the political arena where many members of the right have time and again tried to limit the rights of homosexuals, going so far as to try to write discrimination into the Constitution. Or others who have been influenced by the heavy propaganda in this country seem to believe that most Muslims are here to commit acts of terrorism. Gee, isn't that silly.
Perhaps it would be better to take a look at yourself and the culture that we live in before inditing others for theirs.
that open-source is being reccommended to Higher Ed. However, it seems that the availability of source code would have limited use to most college students. For Engineers, Comp Sci, and other technical students that would have both the interest and ability to look at and work with the source code, that's a great thing to be exposed to. But, I don't really see the bennefit for say, business students (not that I'm saying that business students can't program). But, for majors like Comp Sci and Engineering, the source could be a useful too to a good number of students.
I think that being exposed to the different platforms at the Higher Ed level is important though, as you don't know what platform you are going to be working with out in the workforce, and it also allows you to make a more informed desicion about which you'll use personally.
So, is there an educational bennefit to pushing open source software across the board? Or should it be targeted to technical students who could use the extra information (and possibly the exposure to new environments)?
"it's fortunate that Adobe is treating Linux as a first-class operating system in supporting the Flash platform"
They are?? Huh, I must be missing something, because I always thought that flash player releases for Linux was at best months behind that of Windows and OS X.
I've been hearing rumors about this since Flash 8, which was over a year ago. I've missed a lot of flash videos developed for flash 8 that I just plain can't see with my player. (Yes, I watch a lot of those crappy NewGrounds videos.) So, I guess I'd feel better if Adobe actually treated Linux as a first-class operating system, and released new versions in a timely fashion, as opposed to just saying that they do.
It is very aggravating to try to watch some flash video and only see parts of it because whomever created it did so using Flash player 8 or 9. Flash player 8 has been out for at least a year now, and Flash 9 has subsequently been released for windows and osx. Why no new Linux Flash player?
Now, after visiting this site with and without the "Switch User Agent" and being blocked when it was set to Firefox and allowed when set to IE6, I too can see that there seems to be no technical reason for blocking Linux users. For those who say that some users odd configuration may cause them not to be able to view some of the videos, I don't understand why that would be the case as Flash should stand on its own for its content. There may be some lag involved in the worst cases, but I have never come across a Flash 7 video that hasn't worked very well (except the occasional lag in large flash files). I have also viewed Flash videos on several different Linux boxes, including an older P3, all with no troubles.
On a semi-related note (being about Linux compatability for pay services)- I subscribe to Comcast Cable and Internet, we don't have a choice in the location I'm in for cable tv, and recently needed to set up my internet connection. They give you the choice of having their guy do it for $99 or do it yourself for $9. Now, of course, I chose the diy option not only becuase I didn't want to pay the money, but also because I don't want sombody that I don't know getting on my computer. However, Comcast does not support Linux (I run Suse 10). I had to call them up and spend an hour on the phone with them so that they would add the MAC address of my cable modem into their system. Why not just make a browser-based setup that everybody can access, instead of this silly proprietary thing?
Anyways, my point is that it is absolutly rediculous that these situations occur (situations in which there it would take little to no effort to support Linux and that is not done). I mean last I knew, Linux and OSX had a similarly sized market share, so why support one and not the other. I am not willing to give up 15GB+ to install windows, even in a VM (which doesn't help hardware issues), I would rather be using my disk space for something else. Also, I just wanted to mention to those who will surely post that I should be making sure that I check to see if it's Linux compatable before I buy, and I do. The problem is that in certain situations, there is not that luxury of taking your buisiness elsewhere for a comparable product (ie. my cable).
IMHO, if a company is going to be the only choice for some product or service, they really need to support everybody. The argument that "we don't have a linux/unix guy shouldn't fly. They are a service in which the consumer cannot chose an alternative, which means that they are rakin' in the cash, they should be able to scrounge up $50K/yr to get a linux guy if they don't already have one. I'm sick of being in a situation where I am told 'you have to use this service if you want internet,' then the service provider says, 'you have to use this proprietary system if you don't want to us pay $100 to set it up.'
First, let me be clear that I was not trying to suggest anything of a conspiracy between Microsoft and Mozilla. I don't really know where you got that from. My question falls out of previous posters who noted that Firefox installs fine on the Vista Betas and that Microsoft does a lot of non-standard things in their browser. The non-standard issue can make pages targeted at IE incompatable with Firefox and the like.
The windows live question is along the same lines as the first with the added suggestion that this might help microsoft cya against lawsuits.
If the "IE only" pages were the sole result of poor programing and testing on the developers part, then why would microsoft care about backwards compatability. I'm not suggesting that developers shouldn't be more responisble in creating pages that can be accessed by everybody that should be able to access them, but that a part of the responsability does fall onto microsoft for not adhearing to the standards strictly enough.
There are other methods of Stem Cell research that are not destructive or do not involve embryos which the president does not support. He does not support any form of Stem Cell research regaurdless of the method, even though some of his right-wing constituants are warming up to the idea. Unfortunatly, I don't think this will do anything to change his mind.
Also, what is so wrong with doing Stem Cell research on discarded embryos anyways? The research would be putting them to good use instead of letting them go to waste.
I own an iPod video, I enjoy being on the T late at night and watching a South Park episode while sobering up and/or trying to stay awake. So whatever portable media player that I get in the future must have decent capacity and video support. I do not like the bulky hard drive and would love to see a competitive flash drive to replace it. I run Linux, so I generally need to boot up OSx86 to transfer things to the iPod. After the first time I tried with Amarok, I killed a video that I had on there (one that I had purchased), which as you can imagine made me a bit weary of using Linux for getting music on to the device.
For me, something along these lines is a step in the right direction. Moving to flash drives and Linux support. However, I didn't see anywhere in that little blurb about it being compatable with Linux. And I wonder why it requires Windows Media Player 10, my guess is that that's what it uses as its file transfer client. So, my question, is does it really play nice with Linux?
there will be a way to get one of those traditional passports. It's been demonstrated that these new RFID things are able to be hacked and cloned, and since our government seems to be about as keen on security as micro$oft, I'd really like to avoid getting one of these things.
2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.
3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.
So, I guess Max Cohen's theory seems to be panning out in real life. And as cool as that sounds to be able to model the stock market like that, I'll bet that they didn't accidentally stumble onto the structure of life while they were doing it.
An electron does not only have an electrical charge, but it also behaves like an ultrasmall magnet. This is caused by the spinning of the electron around its axis, also called 'spin'.
Electrons do not move about their axis, the spin is a measure of the magnetic angular momentum, if memory serves from quantum physics. Also, no, electrons do not only have two directions to spin, their spin can be in any direction, but only measured spin up or spin down with respect to a single axis at any time. This is based upon the fact that in the Schrödinger equation the operators don't commute for the eigan functions. Put simply, that means that if you measure the spin once in the z direction and obtain an answer, then in the y, and again in the z, you will end up with a different value.
I would also like to know how they are controlling the spin in every possible direction, and effectively measuring it. Because unless the laws of physics have changed, they can still only measure spin up or spin down.
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Why do you need Windows XP or Vista to play these discs, specifically the HD-DVD? The Toshiba players run Linux, therefore would already have all of the software necessary to play these discs, so why not sell it? It would be nice if they supported Linux from the start, especially since the software and drivers clearly exist and there is no extra work involved. It seems that at the very least, it would likely help to discourage the DRM cracking. It could also give HD a competitive edge on BD.
Sure, 'everyone profiles', that is until they get smart enough to realize that 9 times out of 10 they are completely off-base in their judgements. You can take a look at a person across the room and make up some set of assumptions about them based an the way they look, dress, and carry themselves, but try talking to them and you'll often feel foolish as you realize just how wrong you were.
And I agree with you that in many parts of the world intolerant and short-sighted religious beliefs contribute to the culture. Here in America, for example, the "Christian" culture has lead to many people being intolerant and short-sighted. We have many problems here with intolerance that are caused by the "Christian" community. For example, several of the times that I have been to church (Catholic, if you're wondering), I've heard a surmon about how the 'Gay's are going to burn in hell,' a sentiment that seems to have moved itself into the political arena where many members of the right have time and again tried to limit the rights of homosexuals, going so far as to try to write discrimination into the Constitution. Or others who have been influenced by the heavy propaganda in this country seem to believe that most Muslims are here to commit acts of terrorism. Gee, isn't that silly.
Perhaps it would be better to take a look at yourself and the culture that we live in before inditing others for theirs.
that open-source is being reccommended to Higher Ed. However, it seems that the availability of source code would have limited use to most college students. For Engineers, Comp Sci, and other technical students that would have both the interest and ability to look at and work with the source code, that's a great thing to be exposed to. But, I don't really see the bennefit for say, business students (not that I'm saying that business students can't program). But, for majors like Comp Sci and Engineering, the source could be a useful too to a good number of students.
I think that being exposed to the different platforms at the Higher Ed level is important though, as you don't know what platform you are going to be working with out in the workforce, and it also allows you to make a more informed desicion about which you'll use personally.
So, is there an educational bennefit to pushing open source software across the board? Or should it be targeted to technical students who could use the extra information (and possibly the exposure to new environments)?
"it's fortunate that Adobe is treating Linux as a first-class operating system in supporting the Flash platform"
They are?? Huh, I must be missing something, because I always thought that flash player releases for Linux was at best months behind that of Windows and OS X.
I've been hearing rumors about this since Flash 8, which was over a year ago. I've missed a lot of flash videos developed for flash 8 that I just plain can't see with my player. (Yes, I watch a lot of those crappy NewGrounds videos.) So, I guess I'd feel better if Adobe actually treated Linux as a first-class operating system, and released new versions in a timely fashion, as opposed to just saying that they do.
It is very aggravating to try to watch some flash video and only see parts of it because whomever created it did so using Flash player 8 or 9. Flash player 8 has been out for at least a year now, and Flash 9 has subsequently been released for windows and osx. Why no new Linux Flash player?
Now, after visiting this site with and without the "Switch User Agent" and being blocked when it was set to Firefox and allowed when set to IE6, I too can see that there seems to be no technical reason for blocking Linux users. For those who say that some users odd configuration may cause them not to be able to view some of the videos, I don't understand why that would be the case as Flash should stand on its own for its content. There may be some lag involved in the worst cases, but I have never come across a Flash 7 video that hasn't worked very well (except the occasional lag in large flash files). I have also viewed Flash videos on several different Linux boxes, including an older P3, all with no troubles.
On a semi-related note (being about Linux compatability for pay services)- I subscribe to Comcast Cable and Internet, we don't have a choice in the location I'm in for cable tv, and recently needed to set up my internet connection. They give you the choice of having their guy do it for $99 or do it yourself for $9. Now, of course, I chose the diy option not only becuase I didn't want to pay the money, but also because I don't want sombody that I don't know getting on my computer. However, Comcast does not support Linux (I run Suse 10). I had to call them up and spend an hour on the phone with them so that they would add the MAC address of my cable modem into their system. Why not just make a browser-based setup that everybody can access, instead of this silly proprietary thing?
Anyways, my point is that it is absolutly rediculous that these situations occur (situations in which there it would take little to no effort to support Linux and that is not done). I mean last I knew, Linux and OSX had a similarly sized market share, so why support one and not the other. I am not willing to give up 15GB+ to install windows, even in a VM (which doesn't help hardware issues), I would rather be using my disk space for something else. Also, I just wanted to mention to those who will surely post that I should be making sure that I check to see if it's Linux compatable before I buy, and I do. The problem is that in certain situations, there is not that luxury of taking your buisiness elsewhere for a comparable product (ie. my cable).
IMHO, if a company is going to be the only choice for some product or service, they really need to support everybody. The argument that "we don't have a linux/unix guy shouldn't fly. They are a service in which the consumer cannot chose an alternative, which means that they are rakin' in the cash, they should be able to scrounge up $50K/yr to get a linux guy if they don't already have one. I'm sick of being in a situation where I am told 'you have to use this service if you want internet,' then the service provider says, 'you have to use this proprietary system if you don't want to us pay $100 to set it up.'
First, let me be clear that I was not trying to suggest anything of a conspiracy between Microsoft and Mozilla. I don't really know where you got that from. My question falls out of previous posters who noted that Firefox installs fine on the Vista Betas and that Microsoft does a lot of non-standard things in their browser. The non-standard issue can make pages targeted at IE incompatable with Firefox and the like.
The windows live question is along the same lines as the first with the added suggestion that this might help microsoft cya against lawsuits.
If the "IE only" pages were the sole result of poor programing and testing on the developers part, then why would microsoft care about backwards compatability. I'm not suggesting that developers shouldn't be more responisble in creating pages that can be accessed by everybody that should be able to access them, but that a part of the responsability does fall onto microsoft for not adhearing to the standards strictly enough.
I too was curious about this. It seems the audience is M$ users, so I wonder how the built-in Linux or BSD firewalls would fair.
There are other methods of Stem Cell research that are not destructive or do not involve embryos which the president does not support. He does not support any form of Stem Cell research regaurdless of the method, even though some of his right-wing constituants are warming up to the idea. Unfortunatly, I don't think this will do anything to change his mind.
Also, what is so wrong with doing Stem Cell research on discarded embryos anyways? The research would be putting them to good use instead of letting them go to waste.
I own an iPod video, I enjoy being on the T late at night and watching a South Park episode while sobering up and/or trying to stay awake. So whatever portable media player that I get in the future must have decent capacity and video support. I do not like the bulky hard drive and would love to see a competitive flash drive to replace it. I run Linux, so I generally need to boot up OSx86 to transfer things to the iPod. After the first time I tried with Amarok, I killed a video that I had on there (one that I had purchased), which as you can imagine made me a bit weary of using Linux for getting music on to the device.
For me, something along these lines is a step in the right direction. Moving to flash drives and Linux support. However, I didn't see anywhere in that little blurb about it being compatable with Linux. And I wonder why it requires Windows Media Player 10, my guess is that that's what it uses as its file transfer client. So, my question, is does it really play nice with Linux?
there will be a way to get one of those traditional passports. It's been demonstrated that these new RFID things are able to be hacked and cloned, and since our government seems to be about as keen on security as micro$oft, I'd really like to avoid getting one of these things.
1. Mathematics is the language of the universe.
2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.
3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.
So, I guess Max Cohen's theory seems to be panning out in real life. And as cool as that sounds to be able to model the stock market like that, I'll bet that they didn't accidentally stumble onto the structure of life while they were doing it.
An electron does not only have an electrical charge, but it also behaves like an ultrasmall magnet. This is caused by the spinning of the electron around its axis, also called 'spin'.
Electrons do not move about their axis, the spin is a measure of the magnetic angular momentum, if memory serves from quantum physics. Also, no, electrons do not only have two directions to spin, their spin can be in any direction, but only measured spin up or spin down with respect to a single axis at any time. This is based upon the fact that in the Schrödinger equation the operators don't commute for the eigan functions. Put simply, that means that if you measure the spin once in the z direction and obtain an answer, then in the y, and again in the z, you will end up with a different value.
I would also like to know how they are controlling the spin in every possible direction, and effectively measuring it. Because unless the laws of physics have changed, they can still only measure spin up or spin down.