blasphemer! have you even read the sacred text which you so blithly profane?
they already knew the answer before they built the earth. Earth's job was to calculate the question. ofc, since the golgafrinchins (sic?) showed up early in the process, we've completly screwed up the calculation.
>Hell, the simplest would be an easy reading > comprehension or logic test with a short-answer >blank - the computer would never get it, and > all humans would.
you mean something like "how many bubbles are in a bar of soap"?
You're right, your IM and slashdot reading and occasional song download isn't taking that much bandwidth. it's everyone's at your location that takes the bandwidth.
My office has a T1, and between the hours of 9 and 5, my averate throughput from ibiblio is 12kps. I could do better with a 28.8 modem. as soon as everyone goes home, i can get 160kps. -- and we've already blocked all the popular p2p ports.
>Performance isn't bad at all. I don't even notice it in my >application since my bottleneck is the 100T connection >to the server rather than the 400Mb Firewire bus or the >encryption speed, but even with local copies, a G4 >should do a fine job of keeping up with the Firewire bus.
>The FW 800 bus will be a little different matter. Maybe >the dual 1.42 G4 can do it, but I doubt my lowly PB >could.
While it's fine to get excited about fast busses, it's important to remember that they're that fast because they're designed to support a bunch of drives, not because each drive is actually capable of pushing that much data. If you're luicky, the drive inside the enclosure is a 7200 rpm ata drive, which isn't capable of filling the ata100 bus on it's own, let alone a firewire 800 bus.
It's the memory. when i tried vmware w/ 256M of system ram it was dog slow (apparently cause windows uses so much damn memory) but when i got an extra 256 everything was fine.
I still recommend using wine for everything you can get to work and then vmware as a fallback.
because anyone who runs the brand new shiniest version of anything on their machine should expect that it's not perfect, and should go look at resources for developers.
slashdot: news for whiners, stuff for people who need things explained to them in very small words
>And, as I said, I'm pretty sure the pirates named >themselves. I don't actually have evidence either way, and i also remember people calling themselves pirates in the early 80s, so i'll let you have this point.
Now, can you give me an argument as to why infringement/copying is wrong?
>And finding a prettier term for software >piracy will not redeem it.
I'm not suggesting we find a prettier term for software piracy, i'm suggesting we stop using an uglier term for "copyright infringement" - as using the uglier term does not make it any worse.
>The language grows, words acquire new meanings >[bartleby.com]. Get used to it.
yes - as people use words in new ways, they take on new meanings. If, however, we refuse to use them in these ways, we may be able to change the language in a positive way.
it's not Fing piracy. there are no boats involved. "Piracy" is a PR term dreamed up by M$ to make something sound worse than it is.
Did you see the article in the register last week showing that microsoft could sell Office for $40.00 and still make a profit on it? how is this morally better than me giving my friends a copy of it when i've had to pay $400 for it?
>A lot of slashdotters attack libertarians, >but the root cause of this kind of FCC mandated >regulation of your lives is your trust in big >government
s/trust in big government/rampant apathy/
people just don't care... Yet.
King George the First has managed to take away pretty much every right we assume the constitution gives us. Because we were to busy watching the Osbornes, we'll now have to fight to get them back. unfortunatly, this time, there's no underpopulated contenants left to move to to get away from this oppression.
and the emerge system never asks me to "trust all content from microsoft corporation". If i want to see what something does, i just look at the ebuild file.
"News for wannabes who are too lazy to find out what something is on their own and insist that the slashdot editors explain everything to them in small words".
I suggest a forking of the community:/. visitors using IE or AOL will be redirected to the wannabe version, and the rest of us won't have to wait 2 hours for all their posts be be modded down before reading the discussion.
the mmx fix will prolly only affect you if you've compiled something with "-mmmx" in your cflags or cxxflags. generally, programs don't assume you have mmx support unless you explicitly tell them. My kernel has
heh:) tell that to my company : our expense reporting , and now our Time Sheets are all on-line; except they use so many frotzing Active X controls that they only work with IE 5.5 (not 6, mind you...)
the idea that this kind of corner cutting now will just lead to more work later when ie 5.5 goes away for good just doesnt seem to occur to anyone...
not much: kde on qt-embedded should be able to handle 90% of what i use X for... except for the cool freedom-of-choice factor. untill i can use nedit on it, i'll just stick with X
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and they say the /. editors don't troll much.
blasphemer! have you even read the sacred text which you so blithly profane?
they already knew the answer before they built the earth. Earth's job was to calculate the question. ofc, since the golgafrinchins (sic?) showed up early in the process, we've completly screwed up the calculation.
"here, this is a list of people who do not want to recieve spam from you".
since most of the spam i've recieved lately has come through open relays in asia, how id the state of colorado going to help?
>Hell, the simplest would be an easy reading
> comprehension or logic test with a short-answer
>blank - the computer would never get it, and
> all humans would.
you mean something like "how many bubbles are in a bar of soap"?
You're right, your IM and slashdot reading and occasional song download isn't taking that much bandwidth. it's everyone's at your location that takes the bandwidth.
My office has a T1, and between the hours of 9 and 5, my averate throughput from ibiblio is 12kps. I could do better with a 28.8 modem. as soon as everyone goes home, i can get 160kps. -- and we've already blocked all the popular p2p ports.
>Performance isn't bad at all. I don't even notice it in my >application since my bottleneck is the 100T connection
>to the server rather than the 400Mb Firewire bus or the
>encryption speed, but even with local copies, a G4
>should do a fine job of keeping up with the Firewire bus.
>The FW 800 bus will be a little different matter. Maybe
>the dual 1.42 G4 can do it, but I doubt my lowly PB
>could.
While it's fine to get excited about fast busses, it's important to remember that they're that fast because they're designed to support a bunch of drives, not because each drive is actually capable of pushing that much data. If you're luicky, the drive inside the enclosure is a 7200 rpm ata drive, which isn't capable of filling the ata100 bus on it's own, let alone a firewire 800 bus.
Not one comment on Scott Ian & the boys? Not even a troll?
[Author briefly has a vision of a motorcycle tooling down the highway with an SUV v-8 crammed into it, penguin bumper stickers adhered all over it.]
something like.... this?
http://www.bosshoss.com/second.html
It's the memory. when i tried vmware w/ 256M of system ram it was dog slow (apparently cause windows uses so much damn memory) but when i got an extra 256 everything was fine.
I still recommend using wine for everything you can get to work and then vmware as a fallback.
>XScale is now famous for its increasingly widespread
>use in PDA devices, used because of its low power
>consumption and high performance processing.
um... this must explain why my inbox is full of messages from Sean at thekompany.com about how crappy the performance of the new Zaurus is.
because anyone who runs the brand new shiniest version of anything on their machine should expect that it's not perfect, and should go look at resources for developers.
slashdot:
news for whiners, stuff for people who need things explained to them in very small words
and the poor human babes have to turn to surgery and saline to get maximized.
>And, as I said, I'm pretty sure the pirates named
>themselves.
I don't actually have evidence either way, and i also remember people calling themselves pirates in the early 80s, so i'll let you have this point.
Now, can you give me an argument as to why infringement/copying is wrong?
>And finding a prettier term for software
>piracy will not redeem it.
I'm not suggesting we find a prettier term for software piracy, i'm suggesting we stop using an uglier term for "copyright infringement" - as using the uglier term does not make it any worse.
>The language grows, words acquire new meanings
>[bartleby.com]. Get used to it.
yes - as people use words in new ways, they take on new meanings. If, however, we refuse to use them in these ways, we may be able to change the language in a positive way.
not to be a dick...
ok, yeah, to be a dick:
it's not Fing piracy. there are no boats involved. "Piracy" is a PR term dreamed up by M$ to make something sound worse than it is.
Did you see the article in the register last week showing that microsoft could sell Office for $40.00 and still make a profit on it? how is this morally better than me giving my friends a copy of it when i've had to pay $400 for it?
>A lot of slashdotters attack libertarians,
>but the root cause of this kind of FCC mandated
>regulation of your lives is your trust in big
>government
s/trust in big government/rampant apathy/
people just don't care... Yet.
King George the First has managed to take away pretty much every right we assume the constitution gives us. Because we were to busy watching the Osbornes, we'll now have to fight to get them back. unfortunatly, this time, there's no underpopulated contenants left to move to to get away from this oppression.
and the emerge system never asks me to "trust all content from microsoft corporation". If i want to see what something does, i just look at the ebuild file.
No longer is it news for nerds; now it's
/. visitors using IE or AOL will be redirected to the wannabe version, and the rest of us won't have to wait 2 hours for all their posts be be modded down before reading the discussion.
"News for wannabes who are too lazy to find out what something is on their own and insist that the slashdot editors explain everything to them in small words".
I suggest a forking of the community:
the mmx fix will prolly only affect you if you've compiled something with "-mmmx" in your cflags or cxxflags. generally, programs don't assume you have mmx support unless you explicitly tell them. My kernel has
-Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Os -fomit-frame-pointer
so i'm not worri
for some reason, i have an image of a beige box with a 3 foot stack of cds sitting on top of it.
> You have to QA against each
:) tell that to my company : our expense reporting , and now our Time Sheets are all on-line; except they use so many frotzing Active X controls that they only work with IE 5.5 (not 6, mind you...)
heh
the idea that this kind of corner cutting now will just lead to more work later when ie 5.5 goes away for good just doesnt seem to occur to anyone...
not much: kde on qt-embedded should be able to handle 90% of what i use X for... except for the cool freedom-of-choice factor. untill i can use nedit on it, i'll just stick with X
actually, if you go through the archives of "ask slashdot" recently, you'll see that they pretty much only post flamebait
Duke Nukem will get to the $100 bill first, because the others are figments of your imagination