I've used Sprint PCS for my cellphone service for about 3 1/2 years now. I've had various cable providers (Adelphia, Armstrong, AT&T) in that time (I moved a lot).
I have not had a land line phone in all that time. It's so nice not to have to pay $45 bucks a month for the privilege of connecting a phone to a line, let alone all the other charges for long distance, taxes, "line service" charges, etc. I also never had to change my phone number, a bonus.
It's no wonder arcades are dying. The days of being able to enter an arcade, pop in your credits, and beat the game are over.
Look at most of the racing or shooting games...you gives yer money, you play one race, you place whereever, and then the game is over. It's usually 30-60 seconds of entertainment...and it's often a dollar a game. Nobody I know can afford to just go dropping 60 bucks an HOUR on a game, no matter how fun it is.
Having worked for the Gov't I think I can tell you why the DoD loves it's plans and protocols so much, as you put it:
If your programming mucks up, the wrong people DIE. If you don't have standards that are _rigorously_ abided by, our soldiers DIE. The US military and the rest of the gov't prides itself on it's technological edge. It relies on on structures that are there NOT to screw up (ask a space shuttle computer programmer about standards sometime).
At the risk of responding to a troll, I'd like to point out to the parent's moderators that there's a reason for "bureaucratic" programming.
Probably the reason the DoD likes Java (if they do, I don't know for sure) is that it's well documented, has a wealth of libraries, and reasonably safe (secure) out of the box, even in the hands of someone relatively inexperienced with secure coding standards.
To get back on topic, I've tried native compilation of Java code...I'm not really sold on it. On higher-end machines, or machines with goodly amounts of ram, Java's no stinker. The upcoming 1.4 from Sun promises neat stuff like 2D acceleration. No 2D accel is one of the reasons why redraws feel relatively slow now. Plus, speeds of JIT's are increasing to the point at which I'm not sure I'd want to give up platform independence. If anything, this is probably useful to the handheld crowd, more than any other platform.
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I manage our source code control environment at my company. SCC provides you with a good history of what is _probably_ happening with your code tree, but it does NOT provide any QA whatsoever. There is nothing to stop anyone from submitting crap into the tree, if they have access. Someone actually has to implement and review code before anything gets approved.
In a system as complex as an o/s kernel, one very small piece of code can have a massive ripple effect on the entire operating system. Linus wants this control because that's the only way he can avoid this "ripple" effect.
If you do not have a system that controls how people submit and approve code (which has nothing to do with any software tool), you will have CRAP in your code. Linus is entirely correct here.
What we _do_ need is a new process. We do not need a new tool. Linus brought us this far, let Linus answer the question.
You are all missing the point: The RIAA is not fighting to live, the RIAA is fighting to WIN.
Artists don't need the megaexpensive recording studios. These days, most anyone can set up a decent studio for a relatively small investment.
Artists don't need the megaexpensive advertising. These days, anyone can gain popularity via web media. Fansites, mailing lists, word of mouth: it's worked before, it's working now, and it's hella cheaper than MTV.
Artists don't need the distribution chain. They can post to the web. As soon as a good payment system comes along, where the artist can be paid directly and receives most of that payment, the distribution chain is toast.
The industry is fighting everything you talk about here because they see a new dawn for them: TOTAL control of media.
To totally control access to a system, you have to control the whole damn thing, input to output, re their SSSCA, CPRM, DMCA, LMNOP or whatever the initiative will be. That means that you will need a license just to input. If by law, you use THEIR tools, you'll have to PAY to buy a license to publish. After all, the industry will control this. If the industry doesn't want what you're pushing, you get no license.
If you don't have a license, and it's illegal to go around their system, well, you have no independent artists. It's that simple. RIAA and MPAA win.
You're right of course, we need to publish. But for how long will we be able to publish? Microsoft has already tried to enforce not being able to critisize Microsoft using Microsoft products...
To totally control access to a system, you have to control the whole damn thing, input to output. That means that you will need a license just to input. Since Linux won't be able to support DRM totally, or will be able to go around it, you won't be allowed to use it. If you use THEIR tools, you'll be denied a license to rant!
If you don't have a license, and it's illegal to go around the system, YOU HAVE NO VOICE.
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Umm...FoxNews is biased? and your guerrillanews with a headline like this:
"Bush's Racial Coup D'Etat and Intell Shutdown
Did Jeb Bush fix the Florida election long before any votes were cast? Did President Bush shut down the FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies' investigations into terror networks prior to 9-11, leaving America wide open to the attacks? "
Or this:
Like the best muckrakers, he is angry, opinionated and armed with a tireless desire to expose the truth.
Nope, no opinion bias there either:P At any rate, the parent topic here is about lasers, not politial bias...on topic please.
here's a question for you about XP and serialized media - XP has this service running in the background that checks for the serial id's of mp3 players...can you disable this and still use your player? does the r500 even have one of these ids?
I have also tried XP. It has a lot of really nice features, and some not-so-nice things.
First of all, if you turn off all the GUI bloat (My Computer -> Properties -> Performance Settings) it is nicely quick indeed even on low-end machines PROVIDED that you have lots of RAM. A Celeron 400 with 192 megs of RAM boots into XP much faster than 2000 does, and performs at or above the level of 2000 with a similar amount of RAM.
It is true, with any newly-release software, that there are probably bugs and compatibility issues. But XP really shines in some areas, notable Firewire. A friend who had a 1394 card that he couldn't get to work in win98 lent me the card, so I tried it and a DV cam in XP. Not only did XP not need any drivers, it mounted the camera up as a drive instantly, and has a built-in image capture utility that works extremely well (though it could use some extra settings for images). Color me impressed as hell.
XP by default, installs about 1.2 gigs of stuff! It also ships with a number of security concerns like Remote Registry, Remote Desktop, and some other services turned on by default... XP also has a lot of services that are not necessarily security concerns, but, do we really need easy wireless configuration turned on by default if you don't have any wireless devices? Same for the camera image services. Those turn on if disabled as soon as you install a camera anyway. So, there's LOTS of room for memory bloat improvment. I got a significant speedup by disabling a lot of unneeded services (probably about 12-15 by default).
We in the linux community, instead of bitching, need to look at XP as the new target. Look how good OSX and XP are. If we want to remain a competitor, we need to make our desktops this good. No excuses.
I'd like to see this for Sparc architectures...I have one of the Sparc clones with an ATI Rage II+ in it. 256 colors is possible, but just you try to set different video modes...anyone have any ideas for me? The board is PCI-based, and I'm not paying 700 bucks for a video card that a TNT1 would stomp all over...
I don't suppose you'd consider a HOW-TO or an FAQ on how you added the codec to your mp3 player? I certainly don't know how to do this:) Maybe a download?
actually, PA (I live there too) you can get a ticket for driving in the passing lane without passing. I forget what the length of time is, but the state legislature passed it supposedly because a couple of the legislators were tired of semi's blocking the passing lane. Yay for them!
It (Java) is being used widely in the industry, and I think educational institutions have a responsibility to realease students with marketable skills.
This is a really big deal. How many new CS types are you seeing in your HR departments, looking for jobs, that don't know squat? Have you seen college curriculums lately? I went to Penn State about 3 years ago, and I can tell you that they were STILL teaching engineering students FORTRAN, for heaven's sake. MIS students were encouraged to take 2-3 semesters of COBOL. Not that COBOL isn't still used in legacy systems, but they didn't even offer a Java class until 2 years ago, and that was only one semester as an experiment.
One of the other posts here also made the note that Java, for all it's shortcomings, is really portable. Get the JDK, run the program. It's that simple. Other languages are portable, true, but Sun has really gone out of their way to ensure that programmers have a rich set of libraries to develop from. You hardly have to write code anymore, it's mostly a matter of reading the documentation and stringing together the correct objects. Those same libraries are completely portable across any platform that the JDK is written for. You can't say the same thing about most other languages.
Java is a great way to learn the complexities of OOP without killing yourself with overhead, and you get to learn a language that is in commercial demand as well.
Toyota is selling this car (the Prius) at a loss, to get a foot in on the technology, as well as comply with certain California laws stating that a certain percentage of ZEV's (zero emissions vehicles) must be sold.
Besides, this car may be efficient, but it's ugly (IMO) as hell. Who's going to buy an ugly, underpowered car?
In response to our European friends who wonder why Americans need such powerful cars:
Americans generally are the most idiotic and thoughtless drivers in the world (and I'm an American, so no calling this flamebait). They have no concept of what the passing lane is for, and often prefer to idle along in it, blithely blocking others from passing. More importantly, they often don't allow cars to merge onto highways by moving over. It's dangerous pulling out into traffic here. You need that power to get around the idiots. Try driving in New York City sometime.
I only get angry in my car anymore...
I made a big list of these using one of those websites that list tracking networks and a short Perl script, then edited it for the particular machine I was on (Windows 2000 requires the header "Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00" whereas older versions of Windows require "REGEDIT4").
You can export these lists and share them with everyone but be careful when you accept these as people can add themselves to unrestricted zones if you don't read the registry files (note the dword value at the end, should be "4").
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I've used Sprint PCS for my cellphone service for about 3 1/2 years now. I've had various cable providers (Adelphia, Armstrong, AT&T) in that time (I moved a lot).
I have not had a land line phone in all that time. It's so nice not to have to pay $45 bucks a month for the privilege of connecting a phone to a line, let alone all the other charges for long distance, taxes, "line service" charges, etc. I also never had to change my phone number, a bonus.
Look at most of the racing or shooting games...you gives yer money, you play one race, you place whereever, and then the game is over. It's usually 30-60 seconds of entertainment...and it's often a dollar a game. Nobody I know can afford to just go dropping 60 bucks an HOUR on a game, no matter how fun it is.
Arcades are killing themselves.
If your programming mucks up, the wrong people DIE. If you don't have standards that are _rigorously_ abided by, our soldiers DIE. The US military and the rest of the gov't prides itself on it's technological edge. It relies on on structures that are there NOT to screw up (ask a space shuttle computer programmer about standards sometime).
At the risk of responding to a troll, I'd like to point out to the parent's moderators that there's a reason for "bureaucratic" programming.
Probably the reason the DoD likes Java (if they do, I don't know for sure) is that it's well documented, has a wealth of libraries, and reasonably safe (secure) out of the box, even in the hands of someone relatively inexperienced with secure coding standards.
To get back on topic, I've tried native compilation of Java code...I'm not really sold on it. On higher-end machines, or machines with goodly amounts of ram, Java's no stinker. The upcoming 1.4 from Sun promises neat stuff like 2D acceleration. No 2D accel is one of the reasons why redraws feel relatively slow now. Plus, speeds of JIT's are increasing to the point at which I'm not sure I'd want to give up platform independence. If anything, this is probably useful to the handheld crowd, more than any other platform.
In a system as complex as an o/s kernel, one very small piece of code can have a massive ripple effect on the entire operating system. Linus wants this control because that's the only way he can avoid this "ripple" effect.
If you do not have a system that controls how people submit and approve code (which has nothing to do with any software tool), you will have CRAP in your code. Linus is entirely correct here.
What we _do_ need is a new process. We do not need a new tool. Linus brought us this far, let Linus answer the question.
Look how many Xboxes Halo has sold. Look how many PS2's MGS2 has sold.
I think we're all missing the point here: we want linux games...let's make a game that people install Linux to play.
I run a 905 (not 905B) card in XP with no problems. Don't know about the 590's.
doesn't LMHOSTS get around this?
Artists don't need the megaexpensive recording studios. These days, most anyone can set up a decent studio for a relatively small investment.
Artists don't need the megaexpensive advertising. These days, anyone can gain popularity via web media. Fansites, mailing lists, word of mouth: it's worked before, it's working now, and it's hella cheaper than MTV.
Artists don't need the distribution chain. They can post to the web. As soon as a good payment system comes along, where the artist can be paid directly and receives most of that payment, the distribution chain is toast.
The industry is fighting everything you talk about here because they see a new dawn for them: TOTAL control of media.
To totally control access to a system, you have to control the whole damn thing, input to output, re their SSSCA, CPRM, DMCA, LMNOP or whatever the initiative will be. That means that you will need a license just to input. If by law, you use THEIR tools, you'll have to PAY to buy a license to publish. After all, the industry will control this. If the industry doesn't want what you're pushing, you get no license.
If you don't have a license, and it's illegal to go around their system, well, you have no independent artists. It's that simple. RIAA and MPAA win.
You're right of course, we need to publish. But for how long will we be able to publish? Microsoft has already tried to enforce not being able to critisize Microsoft using Microsoft products...
To totally control access to a system, you have to control the whole damn thing, input to output. That means that you will need a license just to input. Since Linux won't be able to support DRM totally, or will be able to go around it, you won't be allowed to use it. If you use THEIR tools, you'll be denied a license to rant!
If you don't have a license, and it's illegal to go around the system, YOU HAVE NO VOICE.
"Bush's Racial Coup D'Etat and Intell Shutdown
Did Jeb Bush fix the Florida election long before any votes were cast? Did President Bush shut down the FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies' investigations into terror networks prior to 9-11, leaving America wide open to the attacks? "
Or this:
Like the best muckrakers, he is angry, opinionated and armed with a tireless desire to expose the truth.
Nope, no opinion bias there either
here's a question for you about XP and serialized media - XP has this service running in the background that checks for the serial id's of mp3 players...can you disable this and still use your player? does the r500 even have one of these ids?
Read to the end of the thread. It notes that the problem was with a Belkin USB hub that the guy was using...
First of all, if you turn off all the GUI bloat (My Computer -> Properties -> Performance Settings) it is nicely quick indeed even on low-end machines PROVIDED that you have lots of RAM. A Celeron 400 with 192 megs of RAM boots into XP much faster than 2000 does, and performs at or above the level of 2000 with a similar amount of RAM.
It is true, with any newly-release software, that there are probably bugs and compatibility issues. But XP really shines in some areas, notable Firewire. A friend who had a 1394 card that he couldn't get to work in win98 lent me the card, so I tried it and a DV cam in XP. Not only did XP not need any drivers, it mounted the camera up as a drive instantly, and has a built-in image capture utility that works extremely well (though it could use some extra settings for images). Color me impressed as hell.
XP by default, installs about 1.2 gigs of stuff! It also ships with a number of security concerns like Remote Registry, Remote Desktop, and some other services turned on by default... XP also has a lot of services that are not necessarily security concerns, but, do we really need easy wireless configuration turned on by default if you don't have any wireless devices? Same for the camera image services. Those turn on if disabled as soon as you install a camera anyway. So, there's LOTS of room for memory bloat improvment. I got a significant speedup by disabling a lot of unneeded services (probably about 12-15 by default).
We in the linux community, instead of bitching, need to look at XP as the new target. Look how good OSX and XP are. If we want to remain a competitor, we need to make our desktops this good. No excuses.
http://www.msn.com/feedback.ashx
I did.
To be honest I think you are both blinded by your hatred of Bush. You don't have to like the guy, or think he's a genius, but listen to what he said:
May I paraphrase Bush? Thanks.
"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them,"
Do you have any idea what this means? Bush is declaring _WAR_ on countries that supported this action.
well actually I can't get the monitor to sync up at any resolution or freqency if I choose this bitdepth...
I'd like to see this for Sparc architectures...I have one of the Sparc clones with an ATI Rage II+ in it. 256 colors is possible, but just you try to set different video modes...anyone have any ideas for me? The board is PCI-based, and I'm not paying 700 bucks for a video card that a TNT1 would stomp all over...
I don't suppose you'd consider a HOW-TO or an FAQ on how you added the codec to your mp3 player? I certainly don't know how to do this :) Maybe a download?
actually, PA (I live there too) you can get a ticket for driving in the passing lane without passing. I forget what the length of time is, but the state legislature passed it supposedly because a couple of the legislators were tired of semi's blocking the passing lane. Yay for them!
This is a really big deal. How many new CS types are you seeing in your HR departments, looking for jobs, that don't know squat? Have you seen college curriculums lately? I went to Penn State about 3 years ago, and I can tell you that they were STILL teaching engineering students FORTRAN, for heaven's sake. MIS students were encouraged to take 2-3 semesters of COBOL. Not that COBOL isn't still used in legacy systems, but they didn't even offer a Java class until 2 years ago, and that was only one semester as an experiment.
One of the other posts here also made the note that Java, for all it's shortcomings, is really portable. Get the JDK, run the program. It's that simple. Other languages are portable, true, but Sun has really gone out of their way to ensure that programmers have a rich set of libraries to develop from. You hardly have to write code anymore, it's mostly a matter of reading the documentation and stringing together the correct objects. Those same libraries are completely portable across any platform that the JDK is written for. You can't say the same thing about most other languages.
Java is a great way to learn the complexities of OOP without killing yourself with overhead, and you get to learn a language that is in commercial demand as well.
Toyota is selling this car (the Prius) at a loss, to get a foot in on the technology, as well as comply with certain California laws stating that a certain percentage of ZEV's (zero emissions vehicles) must be sold. Besides, this car may be efficient, but it's ugly (IMO) as hell. Who's going to buy an ugly, underpowered car? In response to our European friends who wonder why Americans need such powerful cars: Americans generally are the most idiotic and thoughtless drivers in the world (and I'm an American, so no calling this flamebait). They have no concept of what the passing lane is for, and often prefer to idle along in it, blithely blocking others from passing. More importantly, they often don't allow cars to merge onto highways by moving over. It's dangerous pulling out into traffic here. You need that power to get around the idiots. Try driving in New York City sometime. I only get angry in my car anymore...
perhaps a great candidate for a sourceforge project?
Actually, I've been doing restricting sites in IE (at work) for some time in this manner.
u rr entVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\doubleclick.net]
Windows stores these restricted sites in a location in the registry, here's an example:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\C
"*"=dword:00000004
I made a big list of these using one of those websites that list tracking networks and a short Perl script, then edited it for the particular machine I was on (Windows 2000 requires the header "Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00" whereas older versions of Windows require "REGEDIT4").
You can export these lists and share them with everyone but be careful when you accept these as people can add themselves to unrestricted zones if you don't read the registry files (note the dword value at the end, should be "4").
Perhaps a clone army of like-minded corporate comsumerites would appeal to you.
Oh wait, we don't need cloning for that, we have the NEA and marketers to thank for that already :)
Another problem is that when alcohol evaporates, it attracts water. This naturally doesn't mix well with iron or steel internal engine parts.