Ha! The lameasses from HP won't support their hw under 2000. I had an HP burner (7200i) and you have to _PAY_ to get the 2000 drivers! Excuse me? Idiots, that's the last they'll see of my money. Plextor however, works great for me...
Lots of code that does funky stuff with network interfaces has to rewritten for w2k. A couple of utilities had to be upgraded when I switched from w98. Nothing to do with winsock2 either, since I already had that on the w98 install. I don't know any details since I'm not a windows programmer, so it could be just sloppy programming on the authors' part.
Don't know if you'll get to read this, I'm just bitter that/. is being kinda ruined by all +2 people getting into way off-topic and personal discussions...
This is really quite cool, I know someone who works at Bell and is involved in this (Bell something or other got the contract yesterday).
The Alberta government promised to wire the province during their election campaign. Every town, no matter how many people are there (even 0), every school, government building, post office will have fiber going to it.
They're actually laying down the good stuff (dark fiber). The government will kick in about $500M, Bell a couple hundred as well. The principal customer will of course be the government.
It's a win-win situation as far as I can see. The government delivers its promise, brings in businesses (think call and hosting centers in the middle of nowhere, cheap real estate, cheap labor, lots of bandwidth, decent tax situation) and tax revenue, Bell gets a nice network in the province and starts out with an excellent customer.
As an aside, the local telco (Telus) was expected by everyone to get the contract, in fact they started some work already in anticipation.
It's because the idiot has karma whored himself enough to be able to post more mindless karma whoring posts at +2. Pretty soon I'll have to switch my threshold to +3 to cut out all the moise.
They seem to have the opinion that pretty much everything on the Internet and TV is filthy. While I agree that children should not be exposed to that in the classroom (they're there to learn) they are going about it the wrong way. Claiming moral corruption and such shows their fundamentalism, and at the very least divides their support base and distorts the issue. The real issue is that kids should not be playing Quake (or puzzle games for that matter) in class, and they should not be watching non-curricular movies (violent/filthy or otherwise). Period. Nothing to do with corporate advertising, exploitation, captive audience, corruption. Those are all side-effects, symptoms. These are not the root cause.
So, while they have good ideas, the approach may be a bit offtrack.
This whole "memo" reads unlike any of the other Haloween documents. It was either written specifically to be "leaked" or is simply fake. I'm inclined to believe the later. The other documents were way more analytical and insightful, this one is just a bunch of MS mouthpieces' (official and otherwise) articles combined into one.
Yeah, this is the most annoying thing I found with PHP. You couldn't use double indirection, (even just a single -> would not work all the time?!?) and I found myself using temps all the time... (when you have your own class that wraps several other classes with return hashes containing other complicated structs... you get the picture).
Yeah, just like with other things. Take monitors for example. You may not be able to tell (or appreciate) the difference between 70 and 100 hz refresh after a couple of minutes of casual computer work, but after a few straight hours staring into the thing you sure will!
People whose jobs rely on sound perception or who listen to a lot of sound (audiophiles maybe, hmm?) know that regular mp3s you download from Napster (128kb/s) are of average sound quality. A good encoder and a higher bitrate (160+) will do wonders.
1: Some may know this phrase: "If Mohamed doesn't get to the mountain then the mountain comes to Mohamed." That is the first historical record of the existence of the Internet...
Uhm, no, the quote was supposed to show that even great men like Mohammed are humble. It reads 'if the mountain does not come to mohammed, then mohammed will come to the mountain'.
As to how this is supposed to be the internet is totally beyond me...
Wouldn't it make sense to also consider the percentage of unblocked pornographic sites?
Not really. Hmm, yes and no. One of Peacefire's arguments against filters is that it is technologically unfeasible to implement an accurate and effective filter. Given the size of the Internet and the state of AI used to apply filters this is true.
This argument consists of 2 sections:
there are way more porn sites in existance than are blocked, and more are on the way all the time (size of the Internet)
there are too many sites falsely blocked (false positives) (state of AI technology)
This little piece of analysis addresses the second point. It's just easier. To prove the first you need to find all the porn sites then see which ones aren't blocked. If dozens of filter companies with millions of dollars of resources can't do it, Peacefire ceratinly can't. And of course you can't estimate the size of porn Internet in relation to the entire Internet (the size of which is more or less known or can be estimated reliably). It's like proving a negative, it has to be exhaustive.
Exactly. To see how high prices can get check out any 'independant' label (stroll through Yahoo's music tree). And that's before shipping, because you can't just pick one of them up at your corner store. If you think $12 is high wait till you see $25+, or basically equivalent to your average 'import' CD.
Offtopic my ass! This is a perfectly legitimate question about the article. Read it! It makes no sense whatsoever! Easier shooting what?!? Shooting with a laptop?!? This is very much on topic.
Given the several huge threads above arguing about what Nyquist theorem really is and means, and given that Timothy never explained what it was or provided a link to an explanation, do you think he used the term correctly in context of the linked article? Do you think _he_ knows what it is?
I, for one, have to applaud him for answering these questions without resorting to calling us the paranoid delusionals we really are.
In not those words exactly, but combined with previous (and following) answers this snippet should give you an idea of what he thinks about the people whose questions got submitted:
On the other hand, conspiracy theories suggesting that no one with present or past associations with the Federal Government shares constitutional values or can be trusted to review new systems for their compliance with the law are overblown.
I guess it's a nice way of saying 'you're a bunch of paranoid idiots, stop whining'.
This is not the goal of SDMI most likely. All CDs will be identical, doesn't matter how you buy them. The idea behind it is that all licenced devices (and they will have to be to be legal) will refuse to copy, transfer, re-encode or even play any files that have a particular watermark in them. Any non-licenced players/devices will be sued and removed from market.
I think the time has come for posts about breaking trivial obstacles, decrypting emails, etc, to be filed under 'Karma Whoring'. Give it up already, it's getting old.
(oops, submit and preview are WAY too close to each other)
someone tell me - what the hell does 95% of the computer buyers need it for?
They don't. At least not yet. And the chip is not marketed to them anyways. People who are comparing a Celeron to a Duron and looking into an inegrated video/sound motherboard aren't even going to give this a second look. They're irrelevant as far as this chip is concerned.
Now, as even faster cpus come out and the price is pushed down there won't be an excuse for buying a <1000GHz cpu. And, here's the kicker, you won't be able to find one. Why are people not running on P200s, even though that's all they need? You can't buy one! If you could (second hand) they won't be in quantity (so no corporate purchasers), the chipset will be way outdated and you won't be able to use any new expansion cards.
And software makers will just assume everyone's running at least a P3 of some sort and that's what they will code for. CPUs just come preprogrammed for a 3-5 year obsolescence cycle.
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Ha! The lameasses from HP won't support their hw under 2000. I had an HP burner (7200i) and you have to _PAY_ to get the 2000 drivers! Excuse me? Idiots, that's the last they'll see of my money. Plextor however, works great for me...
Lots of code that does funky stuff with network interfaces has to rewritten for w2k. A couple of utilities had to be upgraded when I switched from w98. Nothing to do with winsock2 either, since I already had that on the w98 install. I don't know any details since I'm not a windows programmer, so it could be just sloppy programming on the authors' part.
Don't know if you'll get to read this, I'm just bitter that /. is being kinda ruined by all +2 people getting into way off-topic and personal discussions...
The Alberta government promised to wire the province during their election campaign. Every town, no matter how many people are there (even 0), every school, government building, post office will have fiber going to it.
They're actually laying down the good stuff (dark fiber). The government will kick in about $500M, Bell a couple hundred as well. The principal customer will of course be the government.
It's a win-win situation as far as I can see. The government delivers its promise, brings in businesses (think call and hosting centers in the middle of nowhere, cheap real estate, cheap labor, lots of bandwidth, decent tax situation) and tax revenue, Bell gets a nice network in the province and starts out with an excellent customer.
As an aside, the local telco (Telus) was expected by everyone to get the contract, in fact they started some work already in anticipation.
Obviously Top500 is not running on one of the top 500 boxes ;)
It's because the idiot has karma whored himself enough to be able to post more mindless karma whoring posts at +2. Pretty soon I'll have to switch my threshold to +3 to cut out all the moise.
So, while they have good ideas, the approach may be a bit offtrack.
I can't believe anyone would take this seriously.
Yeah, this is the most annoying thing I found with PHP. You couldn't use double indirection, (even just a single -> would not work all the time?!?) and I found myself using temps all the time... (when you have your own class that wraps several other classes with return hashes containing other complicated structs... you get the picture).
People whose jobs rely on sound perception or who listen to a lot of sound (audiophiles maybe, hmm?) know that regular mp3s you download from Napster (128kb/s) are of average sound quality. A good encoder and a higher bitrate (160+) will do wonders.
Two (or 3 or 4) broken software packages put together don't make one good one.
Uhm, no, the quote was supposed to show that even great men like Mohammed are humble. It reads 'if the mountain does not come to mohammed, then mohammed will come to the mountain'.
As to how this is supposed to be the internet is totally beyond me...
Not really. Hmm, yes and no. One of Peacefire's arguments against filters is that it is technologically unfeasible to implement an accurate and effective filter. Given the size of the Internet and the state of AI used to apply filters this is true.
This argument consists of 2 sections:
This little piece of analysis addresses the second point. It's just easier. To prove the first you need to find all the porn sites then see which ones aren't blocked. If dozens of filter companies with millions of dollars of resources can't do it, Peacefire ceratinly can't. And of course you can't estimate the size of porn Internet in relation to the entire Internet (the size of which is more or less known or can be estimated reliably). It's like proving a negative, it has to be exhaustive.
Exactly. To see how high prices can get check out any 'independant' label (stroll through Yahoo's music tree). And that's before shipping, because you can't just pick one of them up at your corner store. If you think $12 is high wait till you see $25+, or basically equivalent to your average 'import' CD.
YEah, but it dodn't get modded up. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/10/21/19921 4&cid=103
Not to mention rat skulls are just a wee tiny bit thinner than human skulls.
It may not mean anything, but it sure produces purty pictures...
Offtopic my ass! This is a perfectly legitimate question about the article. Read it! It makes no sense whatsoever! Easier shooting what?!? Shooting with a laptop?!? This is very much on topic.
Given the several huge threads above arguing about what Nyquist theorem really is and means, and given that Timothy never explained what it was or provided a link to an explanation, do you think he used the term correctly in context of the linked article? Do you think _he_ knows what it is?
Of course it does... it makes the noise comine out of the cables sound way better!
In not those words exactly, but combined with previous (and following) answers this snippet should give you an idea of what he thinks about the people whose questions got submitted:
I guess it's a nice way of saying 'you're a bunch of paranoid idiots, stop whining'.
This is not the goal of SDMI most likely. All CDs will be identical, doesn't matter how you buy them. The idea behind it is that all licenced devices (and they will have to be to be legal) will refuse to copy, transfer, re-encode or even play any files that have a particular watermark in them. Any non-licenced players/devices will be sued and removed from market.
I think the time has come for posts about breaking trivial obstacles, decrypting emails, etc, to be filed under 'Karma Whoring'. Give it up already, it's getting old.
Yes, as long as Uncle Sam gets a cut...
someone tell me - what the hell does 95% of the computer buyers need it for?
They don't. At least not yet. And the chip is not marketed to them anyways. People who are comparing a Celeron to a Duron and looking into an inegrated video/sound motherboard aren't even going to give this a second look. They're irrelevant as far as this chip is concerned.
Now, as even faster cpus come out and the price is pushed down there won't be an excuse for buying a <1000GHz cpu. And, here's the kicker, you won't be able to find one. Why are people not running on P200s, even though that's all they need? You can't buy one! If you could (second hand) they won't be in quantity (so no corporate purchasers), the chipset will be way outdated and you won't be able to use any new expansion cards.
And software makers will just assume everyone's running at least a P3 of some sort and that's what they will code for. CPUs just come preprogrammed for a 3-5 year obsolescence cycle.