DX10 or for the uninformed, Derendering eXtraction (10 megapixels/second) is a standard benchmark for measuring the performance of GPUs or Gradient Pixilization Units. Pretty much this is what the video card companies all base their prices on with price being directly related to how many pixels can be gradiated per unit (usually about 30 cents per pixel/ounce).
Not that I don't not disagree with about what worthless pieces of shit that Slashdot editors aren't, but linking to Wikipedia is the epitome of laziness. It is so full of unfactual misinformation that it can't be not trusted in it's integrity or, as one would say, lack thereof.
I think this an excellent move by Google. They are going to be able to leverage Feedburners stickyend methodology to promote brick-and-mortar businesses....no they just bought out some competition like a budding monopoly. Wait did I say budding? I meant existing.
My version control system is so fucking slow. It pisses me off to no end. I mean I'm all like trying to check stuff in and it takes forever. Thank god someone took the time to speed these bitches up.
Congrats. You just used the same argument that slashbots use for stealing music. When your dumb ass gets sued or arrested, be sure to use that argument. I'm sure it will mitigate your punishment. Hell, I bet it'll get you off the hook.
What is the problem here? He's a thief. If you parked outside of a drive-in and set your radio to the the dialogue, are you just some ignorant fool or are you guilty of theft of service? The answer is: You are guilty of theft of service.
You give me some general specs on the system you're creating, and I'll give you some numbers on what it would cost to build it with Asterisk -- either DIY in-house or through a vendor with a phone number to call when it breaks
I'm paying (in the next three weeks), just under $2000 for a VoIP PRI with a support contract, fully installed. It will support 500 DIDs and has features up the ass compared to systems a few years back. If you have something less than what it costs me to pay a developer for less than two weeks (at $60K/year which is dirt cheap where I live), then call me skeptical because I wouldn't trust it as far as I could throw it.
You seem to be equating free software with free employees. I'm not sure what business you are in, but I need to pay for my help.
What happens when AP forgets to pay the support contract bill?
They get fired, that's what.
Also, free software is about more than "philosophy" it's really about the license. Good luck with all your commercial solutions when your company hits a cash flow problem, or forgets to pay the support bill, or uses an unsupported configuration, or allows support to lapse and they want to recertify.
Again, I laugh at your confidence with OSS solutions over commercial solutions. 95% of OSS doesn' even offer what you are suggesting.
More to the point, CEOs tend to listed to VoIP geeks when we tell them we can build them a vastly more flexible phone system for 1/4 of what they'd spend on a big-budget vendor -- mine did.
You might be right, but I really doubt it. I just entertained 5 offers from 5 vendors for VoIP systems. No OSS, yet every one was 80% cheaper than what was offered just 4 years ago. Am I missing something? If commercial solutions are 80% cheaper since 5 years ago shouldn't OSS solutions be, what, 95% cheaper? I'm sure you might be able to offer me a system that is 1/20 the price of what I could buy 4 years ago. The problem is, that it doesn't matter. For a few dollars more, I'm happy to pay for corporate support.
PS I have made my living for the last 8 years using OSS, hell, I'm even posting via Gnome and my last windows box is running '98. I run a small shop and support in the low hundreds of customers and I am very happy doing it. But when I buy a phone system, a cell phone, a router, whatever, I can give two shits about philosophy. I just want it to work and when it breaks, I want to make a phone call and have it fixed.
My point was that nerds seems to have an over inflated sense of influence. It doesn't matter what the subject. Case in point - the idiots that jerked themselves into a frenzy thinking they were going to influence the outcome of American Idol. They might have a small effect here and there but be it elections, TV shows or corporate purchases of phone systems, the typical idiot that posts on Slashdot has little influence. Think Linux. Other than were it has been for the last 10 years, were has it advanced? Beyond the embedded and server market - nowhere. Yet, peruse Slashdot and you'd think that come next Monday, Microsoft will fold and Linux will rule the world.
Works great, unless they live in an RV or on a boat....I'm not sure that analogy works perfectly
Your analogy works fine. I'm sure Microsoft can live with missing the 1% of the population who live in RVs or boats. That's the thing, as long as it works with a suitably large set of the population, you cease to matter.
The computing giant is developing software that could accurately guess your name, age, gender and potentially even your location, by analysing telltale patterns in your web browsing history.
Uh, wouldn't location be the easiest thing to figure out? Yes. The answer is yes.
But I'm a programmer, and I can barely read out loud some perfectly fine code, I can't imagine trying to enter it all with voice recognition, no matter how good it gets.
Why would you even think of using it for that? That's completely retarded. Will it ever be faster to say 'if open paren x equals equals y close paren' than to type 'if (x==y)'? The answer is return apostrophe no comma it will not period apostrophe semi colon.
If I pirate media, I didn't have any intention on buying it in the first place.
How about not pirating it at all? You are only justifying it to yourself when you claim you'd never buy it anyway. Why do you want it but don't want to pay for it? Is it too expensive? Well if it was 1/100th the price would you pay for it? If your answer is yes, then I believe you are stealing. You are saying that if it were cheaper, you'd buy it but it's not so you pirate it. If your answer is no, then do honestly expect me to believe that you are only pirating things that in no circumstance would you even part with one cent in exchange for the item?
No, I don't believe in "the man", I was joking. I will also grant that this is not a very egregious example of spreading out an article over several pages - it is a long article and the ads aren't all that intrusive. Still, I dislike articles that spread beyond two links. It makes it too much work to quickly scan, especially for articles I assume are going to be uninteresting for the most part. Like this one.
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DX10 or for the uninformed, Derendering eXtraction (10 megapixels/second) is a standard benchmark for measuring the performance of GPUs or Gradient Pixilization Units. Pretty much this is what the video card companies all base their prices on with price being directly related to how many pixels can be gradiated per unit (usually about 30 cents per pixel/ounce).
Not that I don't not disagree with about what worthless pieces of shit that Slashdot editors aren't, but linking to Wikipedia is the epitome of laziness. It is so full of unfactual misinformation that it can't be not trusted in it's integrity or, as one would say, lack thereof.
Back in the Web "1.0" days, VCs would never have settled for a payout that small...This is "only" 10x
No shit. This is way worse than the 0X that most VC companies reaped back in the days of web 1.0.
I think this an excellent move by Google. They are going to be able to leverage Feedburners stickyend methodology to promote brick-and-mortar businesses....no they just bought out some competition like a budding monopoly. Wait did I say budding? I meant existing.
My version control system is so fucking slow. It pisses me off to no end. I mean I'm all like trying to check stuff in and it takes forever. Thank god someone took the time to speed these bitches up.
If by games, you mean Slashdots Games category, I really do not see how it could be any more boring.
Congrats. You just used the same argument that slashbots use for stealing music. When your dumb ass gets sued or arrested, be sure to use that argument. I'm sure it will mitigate your punishment. Hell, I bet it'll get you off the hook.
Anyone can listen in, huh? I can listen in to your phone calls using legally obtained electronics. What's the difference?
What is the problem here? He's a thief. If you parked outside of a drive-in and set your radio to the the dialogue, are you just some ignorant fool or are you guilty of theft of service? The answer is: You are guilty of theft of service.
You give me some general specs on the system you're creating, and I'll give you some numbers on what it would cost to build it with Asterisk -- either DIY in-house or through a vendor with a phone number to call when it breaks
I'm paying (in the next three weeks), just under $2000 for a VoIP PRI with a support contract, fully installed. It will support 500 DIDs and has features up the ass compared to systems a few years back. If you have something less than what it costs me to pay a developer for less than two weeks (at $60K/year which is dirt cheap where I live), then call me skeptical because I wouldn't trust it as far as I could throw it.
You wouldn't rather just fix it yourself?
You seem to be equating free software with free employees. I'm not sure what business you are in, but I need to pay for my help.
What happens when AP forgets to pay the support contract bill?
They get fired, that's what.
Also, free software is about more than "philosophy" it's really about the license. Good luck with all your commercial solutions when your company hits a cash flow problem, or forgets to pay the support bill, or uses an unsupported configuration, or allows support to lapse and they want to recertify.
Again, I laugh at your confidence with OSS solutions over commercial solutions. 95% of OSS doesn' even offer what you are suggesting.
More to the point, CEOs tend to listed to VoIP geeks when we tell them we can build them a vastly more flexible phone system for 1/4 of what they'd spend on a big-budget vendor -- mine did.
You might be right, but I really doubt it. I just entertained 5 offers from 5 vendors for VoIP systems. No OSS, yet every one was 80% cheaper than what was offered just 4 years ago. Am I missing something? If commercial solutions are 80% cheaper since 5 years ago shouldn't OSS solutions be, what, 95% cheaper? I'm sure you might be able to offer me a system that is 1/20 the price of what I could buy 4 years ago. The problem is, that it doesn't matter. For a few dollars more, I'm happy to pay for corporate support.
PS I have made my living for the last 8 years using OSS, hell, I'm even posting via Gnome and my last windows box is running '98. I run a small shop and support in the low hundreds of customers and I am very happy doing it. But when I buy a phone system, a cell phone, a router, whatever, I can give two shits about philosophy. I just want it to work and when it breaks, I want to make a phone call and have it fixed.
My point was that nerds seems to have an over inflated sense of influence. It doesn't matter what the subject. Case in point - the idiots that jerked themselves into a frenzy thinking they were going to influence the outcome of American Idol. They might have a small effect here and there but be it elections, TV shows or corporate purchases of phone systems, the typical idiot that posts on Slashdot has little influence. Think Linux. Other than were it has been for the last 10 years, were has it advanced? Beyond the embedded and server market - nowhere. Yet, peruse Slashdot and you'd think that come next Monday, Microsoft will fold and Linux will rule the world.
Works great, unless they live in an RV or on a boat....I'm not sure that analogy works perfectly
Your analogy works fine. I'm sure Microsoft can live with missing the 1% of the population who live in RVs or boats. That's the thing, as long as it works with a suitably large set of the population, you cease to matter.
The computing giant is developing software that could accurately guess your name, age, gender and potentially even your location, by analysing telltale patterns in your web browsing history.
Uh, wouldn't location be the easiest thing to figure out? Yes. The answer is yes.
That is one terrible font. I kind of want to gouge my eyeballs out after reading that.
But I'm a programmer, and I can barely read out loud some perfectly fine code, I can't imagine trying to enter it all with voice recognition, no matter how good it gets.
Why would you even think of using it for that? That's completely retarded. Will it ever be faster to say 'if open paren x equals equals y close paren' than to type 'if (x==y)'? The answer is return apostrophe no comma it will not period apostrophe semi colon.
95 percent is pretty good, only one word in twenty. I wouldn't have a problem with a 5% error ate.
If I pirate media, I didn't have any intention on buying it in the first place.
How about not pirating it at all? You are only justifying it to yourself when you claim you'd never buy it anyway. Why do you want it but don't want to pay for it? Is it too expensive? Well if it was 1/100th the price would you pay for it? If your answer is yes, then I believe you are stealing. You are saying that if it were cheaper, you'd buy it but it's not so you pirate it. If your answer is no, then do honestly expect me to believe that you are only pirating things that in no circumstance would you even part with one cent in exchange for the item?
You might get the short end of the stick:
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So what do we buy if we want to kill babies?
Hammers.
It works because some rat fuckers out there buy the shit that's being advertised.
If it didn't say "Powered by Microsoft" in the upper right corner, you weren't using Microsoft.
No, I don't believe in "the man", I was joking. I will also grant that this is not a very egregious example of spreading out an article over several pages - it is a long article and the ads aren't all that intrusive. Still, I dislike articles that spread beyond two links. It makes it too much work to quickly scan, especially for articles I assume are going to be uninteresting for the most part. Like this one.
Perhaps you didn't read my subject line. I was inviting, yea encouraging, everyone to "stick it" to "the man".