Harbinger of things to come is the latest phrase from the department of redundancy department.
A harbinger describes things to come, so this phrase is equal to "A fortelling of things to come of things to come". Not only that, but Merriam-Webster (my online dictionary of choice, since dictionary.com implemented annoying popups and banners that give people siezures) lists 2b (n. one that foreshadows what is to come) as a precursor to the modern definition (one that pioneers or initiates a major change). Not that "an initiator of major change to come" makes much more sense, as "initiator of major change" already implies something is to come.
You have to keep in mind that even at a paltry 6% return rate, the value of money doubles every 12 years - or about 8 times by the time 100 years rolls around.
Well, yes, but from the perspective of the consumer, think about inflation. If it costs, whatever, say $1000 to buy a domain for 100 years, you have to also account for the cost it would have cost to pay for the domain each year for 100 years, which, no doubt, will increase. Over 100 years of inflation, a domain that starts out costing $20/yr or whatever, by year 50 could cost $100/yr, and by year 99 could cost $250/yr. The purchasing power of $250 will be less, but on the other hand, i guess the consumer saves money.
c) The real overclokers, and the hot-rodders, who push the boundaries of their chosen field, and are really into getting the most performance from their machines.
d) Ricers. People with "Type R" stickers, big wings, windows in their cases, clear fans, and who think neon has any place apart from outside a strip-joint.
I kind of have a problem with this.
Yeah, i'll say that I could equate "ricers" with people who buy a windowd case for their celeron 1700 with onboard video. I'll give you that.
However, I always split up the overclocker-slash-hotrodder into two camps:
Muscle Cars - These people use Intel processors. Their processors are almost hopelessly inefficient, huge, expensive, not very intelligent, and run hot. However, they make it all up in raw speed (displacement / horsepower equal to clock cycles)
Street Racers - These people are the Honda crowd. They buy AMD's because they're cheaper and more intelligent. They know that the clock cycles don't mean as much when your processor isn't able to do as much with them. They value technology over raw power. However, technology only can go so far - currently, the 2.2L VTEC, even when boosted, can't compete with the 460 big block.
Something that looks like this big of a feature will probably see a release in the US. I wouldn't think it would make it to theatres, though. As far as subtitles or overdubbing, like a lot of fans of japanese-come-american stuff, I would rather see subtitles, especially on something with live people because you are not going to be able to get over the lip synch problem. In anime, you can usually get past that because the animated mouths give you enough leway, but even then, I prefer subtitles, because I like to hear the Japanese spoken outloud (I really like the way the language sounds, even though I have no comprehension). As far as why a lot of japanese movies don't get released here: I would say it's probably because the cultural divide is much larger going west than it is going east. That is to say, Japanese people have adopted a lot of our culture and are quite comfortable with most things american, there aren't a lot of things that a japanese person would see in an american movie and not understand (for instance, Vash the Stampede is a *cowboy* - when's the last time you saw a flat desert with tumbleweed in Japan??). But, we wouldn't get a lot of japanese cultural references or references to tradition.
Actually, the best way is to just use Disc 1, get the base installation, and then do the rest via network (assuming you're on broadband - I shudder to think what an installation would be like over dialup).
Where I work, we have a local 100Mbit Debian stable mirror. When ever we install debian on a customer's machine, or one of our own, we obviously set the apt-sources to use the local. It's usually faster than installing off of multiple CD's (all I've ever seen is debian CD1, I wasn't even aware that there were 13 of them). Interesting to think that, for a lot of things, a 48x cdrom is slower than ethernet... but whatever. Plus we get lots of "Hey, what the heck mirror am I using, it's fast!?!?", and it makes us smile.
HTTP is the way to go for local mirrors, by the way, especially when getting multiple packages (like, say, "base system"?). That is, you're using vsftp, because you obviously care about security, and you're also too lazy to set up something that tells vsftp (or is it xinetd) to shut up, no that's not someone DDoSing the connection, those are real transfers. And by you, I mean me.
You know what the problem is with debian's installer?
It asks too many fucking questions.
It asks me what I want to do about this, what I want to do about that, whether it should install this, it tells me that there's a slight chance that the next step could bork my hard drive if I have this one specific motherboard from 1995, am I sure I want to continue, please press enter to continue, the next step is to insert a network driver into the kernel, now you have to set up your apt sources, would you like to set up more apt sources...
I mean, choice is a good thing, but, to me, debian is a case study in what can go wrong if the ability to choose every aspect is taken to the extreme. Just shut up and install. Oh, and don't talk like you're the computer talking to me in IRC. "Would you like me to set this up for you" What the hell?!? What's wrong with "Would you like this set up for you?"
Either you believe in freedom or you don't, right? Wrong! These bootleggers are (presumably) profiting off the work of the Mozilla collective, without contributing anything back. That goes against the spirit and the letter of the project. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Can't they only be profiting if they're stealing revenue that would have otherwise gone to mozilla.org? I.e. if I sell a coffee mug with the firefox logo on it, how am I stealing revenue from mozilla? In their store (which isn't linked to as "store off their front page, but rather as "click here to buy a mozilla CD, which takes you to store.mozilla.com), they have ONE single t-shirt, with the mozilla dinosaur logo on it in the center, very small, for $17.
Now, you could argue about policing a trademark or brand polution or something, but honestly, that's like saying if I make a blender and slap a ford logo on it, I'm snatching profits from Ford. I may be liable for trademark or copyright infringement, etc etc, but you can't reasonably claim that ford is loosing revenue, because they don't sell blenders.
Like a 24 port 10Base-T hub with 23 working ports that my friend found dumpster diving at a government building in 1997. Quite a find, at the time. Not sensative material, but still.
Should BioWare/Atari pay for the new CD Rom I had to buy after upgrading Neverwinter Nights to v1.31, and subsequently making it impossible for my old CD Rom to read the disc because of advanced "SafeDisc"?
*corollary*
I own Neverwinter Nights, all 5 glorious discs of it. If, for some reason, my old and/or busted CD Rom refuses to give the executable what it wants because of SafeDisc, is it legal to bypass the "Do you have a legit disc" check? Is it legal to download a crack that does this for you because I can't speak hex?
(On the Neverwinter Nights message boards, Atari says "no", BioWare says "We can't condone that action, but we're happy you purchased the disc (hint), but you can't link to cracks sites here")
I'm not suggesting that I have the kernel32.dll errors memorized; however, if you see it and it says kernel32 has had an error at 0x0000000000 it's a good bet you should look at replacing your ram, or run memtest for a good 12 hours.
My point is that you don't have to be a genius or have years of training to recognize some of these things, but it sure does look impressive to the minions =)
I totally agree; however, I do have a bone to pick with Onslaught, or mabey it's just the Torlan map.
Once you're losing, and you're down to your base and only one or two power nodes, it's damn near impossible to fight your way back. The vehicles are simply too powerful, and your base doesn't spawn the two most useful vehicles (the scorpion and the tank). And the ability to spawn at any power node you have captured means that even after you kill everyone rushing your base, they're right back there (they don't have to run across the playing field).
Needs tweaking, but inspite of the downfalls, I've been playing the crap out of it.
I was also under the impression that the whole "share the last mile" thing wasn't working anyway. My friend who works at a computer repair shop -slash- budding DSL provider said that they were taking a loss on the DSL stuff at first because they were having to deal with verizon for access to last mile cable. Verizon sells DSL service for ~$35/month, and they wanted ~$32/month from the company my friend works for just to use the last mile (this was just for the wire to the customer's house, not transit, tech support, advertising, etc etc).
So, I think this is a step backwards in a lot of ways, right?
And at 16 pounds, and with that 3Ghz processor in there, it will burn your legs AND cut off circulation to them at the same time!
And be annoying as piss.
My dad works for the gubment, and they got him a new laptop. It has a P-4 1.7 in it (i think), the only catch is that it's a desktop 1.7. It has one fan, which has two speeds: Turbo and Off.
Oh, and it doesn't matter what you do with this thing in regards to the fan being on or off. I stole it for a couple of days and ended up over at a friend's house using it, and i crashed on the couch. The damn thing kept me up, because even with the lid closed and it doing a whole lot of nothing, it would be still for 10 minutes or so, then it would spool the fan up to 189218 rpm and blow for 3 minutes, and then it would be quiet. This is at IDLE! Damn thing sounded like a dustbuster!
And I can't imagine that this luggable from Acer is going to sound any better, especially since you know the 3.0 Ghz P-4 extreme isn't available in a laptop version.
Yeah the Acer starts around $1500, but if you configure it with WinXP, a DVD burner and wireless networking, we are pretty close in price to Apple's solution.
Crack?
Check it: From the article - the notebook with WinXP Professional and a DVD burner will run about $2000. From Apple's website, a powerbook with a 17" screen, 512 megs of ram (half that of the acer), 80 GB hard disk (half that of the acer), and an ATI mobility radeon 9600 (less good than the NVidia counterpart in the Acer) runs a whopping $3000.
So, to recap - $3000 Apple laptop 1.33 Ghz G-4 17" screen 80GB hard drive 512 MB ram DVD burner
$2000 Acer laptop: 3.0 Ghz P-4 17" screen twice the hard drive space twice the RAM DVD burner
Please. Research first. Apple laptops are: 1.) extremely high quality 2.) aesthetically pleasing 3.) lightweight 4.) really really expensive
Please don't take this as an endorsement of one over the other: I love apple hardware, and am probably soon to be in the market for an apple laptop; however, it bugs the shit out of me when people claim that Apple hardware is cheap. It's not.
Google puts a lot of emphasis into making sure its ads are *good* results.
What are you talking about?!?
I've been using google for about 4 + change years now, and I can remember a time when it used to blow away the competition on link accuracy. Unfortunately that time is no more. People have become experts in the art of google page rank spamming, and anymore, any time you look for *anything* on google, you get more on people selling it to you than how to do it. There are so many link farm pages out there now, it's just insane. I can't count the times I've searched for something only to come up with a page that has a link on it for what I was looking for, along with 3000 other links for the same thing, phrased a little differently.
I'm honestly looking for a new search engine. It's just that, even with all the commercial spamming on google, it's still the best thing out there.
But, don't mistake it - it's not as good as it used to be.
We're not giving them anything. We officially have no opinion about the legality of their claim, but if it tells you anything, I host pink fairies, home of the bounty hunt.
Officially, we have no plans to enter into any business partnership with the SCO group.
Dude, completely outside of mail. It comes from the socket connection, the mail program is listning on port such-and-such, and it gets a connection from 12.34.56.78. That's where.
I'm sorry, this simply doesn't make sense. I've read it like 4 times trying to figure out what you actually said, but...
Windows ME's release date has nothing to do with how long Win98 was supported. And I'm not sure where you got 4 years from, or what it's in reference to.
Slashdot Mirror
Brought peace?
Harbinger of things to come is the latest phrase from the department of redundancy department.
A harbinger describes things to come, so this phrase is equal to "A fortelling of things to come of things to come". Not only that, but Merriam-Webster (my online dictionary of choice, since dictionary.com implemented annoying popups and banners that give people siezures) lists 2b (n. one that foreshadows what is to come) as a precursor to the modern definition (one that pioneers or initiates a major change). Not that "an initiator of major change to come" makes much more sense, as "initiator of major change" already implies something is to come.
~Will
Am I the only person who was surprised that the words "Bling" and "Bling" didn't appear in this article?
You have to keep in mind that even at a paltry 6% return rate, the value of money doubles every 12 years - or about 8 times by the time 100 years rolls around.
Well, yes, but from the perspective of the consumer, think about inflation. If it costs, whatever, say $1000 to buy a domain for 100 years, you have to also account for the cost it would have cost to pay for the domain each year for 100 years, which, no doubt, will increase. Over 100 years of inflation, a domain that starts out costing $20/yr or whatever, by year 50 could cost $100/yr, and by year 99 could cost $250/yr. The purchasing power of $250 will be less, but on the other hand, i guess the consumer saves money.
~Will
c) The real overclokers, and the hot-rodders, who push the boundaries of their chosen field, and are really into getting the most performance from their machines.
d) Ricers. People with "Type R" stickers, big wings, windows in their cases, clear fans, and who think neon has any place apart from outside a strip-joint.
I kind of have a problem with this.
Yeah, i'll say that I could equate "ricers" with people who buy a windowd case for their celeron 1700 with onboard video. I'll give you that.
However, I always split up the overclocker-slash-hotrodder into two camps:
Muscle Cars - These people use Intel processors. Their processors are almost hopelessly inefficient, huge, expensive, not very intelligent, and run hot. However, they make it all up in raw speed (displacement / horsepower equal to clock cycles)
Street Racers - These people are the Honda crowd. They buy AMD's because they're cheaper and more intelligent. They know that the clock cycles don't mean as much when your processor isn't able to do as much with them. They value technology over raw power. However, technology only can go so far - currently, the 2.2L VTEC, even when boosted, can't compete with the 460 big block.
~Will
~Will
I'll take a stab at a few of these.
Something that looks like this big of a feature will probably see a release in the US. I wouldn't think it would make it to theatres, though.
As far as subtitles or overdubbing, like a lot of fans of japanese-come-american stuff, I would rather see subtitles, especially on something with live people because you are not going to be able to get over the lip synch problem. In anime, you can usually get past that because the animated mouths give you enough leway, but even then, I prefer subtitles, because I like to hear the Japanese spoken outloud (I really like the way the language sounds, even though I have no comprehension).
As far as why a lot of japanese movies don't get released here: I would say it's probably because the cultural divide is much larger going west than it is going east. That is to say, Japanese people have adopted a lot of our culture and are quite comfortable with most things american, there aren't a lot of things that a japanese person would see in an american movie and not understand (for instance, Vash the Stampede is a *cowboy* - when's the last time you saw a flat desert with tumbleweed in Japan??). But, we wouldn't get a lot of japanese cultural references or references to tradition.
~Will
Actually, the best way is to just use Disc 1, get the base installation, and then do the rest via network (assuming you're on broadband - I shudder to think what an installation would be like over dialup).
Where I work, we have a local 100Mbit Debian stable mirror. When ever we install debian on a customer's machine, or one of our own, we obviously set the apt-sources to use the local. It's usually faster than installing off of multiple CD's (all I've ever seen is debian CD1, I wasn't even aware that there were 13 of them). Interesting to think that, for a lot of things, a 48x cdrom is slower than ethernet... but whatever. Plus we get lots of "Hey, what the heck mirror am I using, it's fast!?!?", and it makes us smile.
HTTP is the way to go for local mirrors, by the way, especially when getting multiple packages (like, say, "base system"?). That is, you're using vsftp, because you obviously care about security, and you're also too lazy to set up something that tells vsftp (or is it xinetd) to shut up, no that's not someone DDoSing the connection, those are real transfers. And by you, I mean me.
~Will
there are a lot of things that WON'T make sense to "Bob User."
Linux fdisk, for instance.
"I know what a file system is, but why are there 112 to choose from?!?"
~Will
You know what the problem is with debian's installer?
It asks too many fucking questions.
It asks me what I want to do about this, what I want to do about that, whether it should install this, it tells me that there's a slight chance that the next step could bork my hard drive if I have this one specific motherboard from 1995, am I sure I want to continue, please press enter to continue, the next step is to insert a network driver into the kernel, now you have to set up your apt sources, would you like to set up more apt sources...
I mean, choice is a good thing, but, to me, debian is a case study in what can go wrong if the ability to choose every aspect is taken to the extreme. Just shut up and install. Oh, and don't talk like you're the computer talking to me in IRC. "Would you like me to set this up for you" What the hell?!? What's wrong with "Would you like this set up for you?"
Aargh, debian is frustrating.
~Will
Necrophile.
Either you believe in freedom or you don't, right? Wrong! These bootleggers are (presumably) profiting off the work of the Mozilla collective, without contributing anything back. That goes against the spirit and the letter of the project. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Can't they only be profiting if they're stealing revenue that would have otherwise gone to mozilla.org? I.e. if I sell a coffee mug with the firefox logo on it, how am I stealing revenue from mozilla? In their store (which isn't linked to as "store off their front page, but rather as "click here to buy a mozilla CD, which takes you to store.mozilla.com), they have ONE single t-shirt, with the mozilla dinosaur logo on it in the center, very small, for $17.
Now, you could argue about policing a trademark or brand polution or something, but honestly, that's like saying if I make a blender and slap a ford logo on it, I'm snatching profits from Ford. I may be liable for trademark or copyright infringement, etc etc, but you can't reasonably claim that ford is loosing revenue, because they don't sell blenders.
~Will
Like a 24 port 10Base-T hub with 23 working ports that my friend found dumpster diving at a government building in 1997. Quite a find, at the time. Not sensative material, but still.
~Will
*translation*
Should BioWare/Atari pay for the new CD Rom I had to buy after upgrading Neverwinter Nights to v1.31, and subsequently making it impossible for my old CD Rom to read the disc because of advanced "SafeDisc"?
*corollary*
I own Neverwinter Nights, all 5 glorious discs of it. If, for some reason, my old and/or busted CD Rom refuses to give the executable what it wants because of SafeDisc, is it legal to bypass the "Do you have a legit disc" check? Is it legal to download a crack that does this for you because I can't speak hex?
(On the Neverwinter Nights message boards, Atari says "no", BioWare says "We can't condone that action, but we're happy you purchased the disc (hint), but you can't link to cracks sites here")
~Will
You jest, but sometimes that message is helpful.
I'm not suggesting that I have the kernel32.dll errors memorized; however, if you see it and it says kernel32 has had an error at 0x0000000000 it's a good bet you should look at replacing your ram, or run memtest for a good 12 hours.
My point is that you don't have to be a genius or have years of training to recognize some of these things, but it sure does look impressive to the minions =)
~Will
you know your binary in your sig is incorrect right?
it comes out with cb@craznar.co[] (the square indicating some random ascii character).
I totally agree; however, I do have a bone to pick with Onslaught, or mabey it's just the Torlan map.
Once you're losing, and you're down to your base and only one or two power nodes, it's damn near impossible to fight your way back. The vehicles are simply too powerful, and your base doesn't spawn the two most useful vehicles (the scorpion and the tank). And the ability to spawn at any power node you have captured means that even after you kill everyone rushing your base, they're right back there (they don't have to run across the playing field).
Needs tweaking, but inspite of the downfalls, I've been playing the crap out of it.
~Will
I was also under the impression that the whole "share the last mile" thing wasn't working anyway. My friend who works at a computer repair shop -slash- budding DSL provider said that they were taking a loss on the DSL stuff at first because they were having to deal with verizon for access to last mile cable. Verizon sells DSL service for ~$35/month, and they wanted ~$32/month from the company my friend works for just to use the last mile (this was just for the wire to the customer's house, not transit, tech support, advertising, etc etc).
So, I think this is a step backwards in a lot of ways, right?
~Will
ATM / Frame Relay Bandwidth.
We've looked at quotes from AT&T on DS-1 and DS-3 types of bandwidth. They own their own nationwide backbone, and are a tier one provider.
Not to mention their long distance service, and many many payphones which now cost $0.50/call.
~Will
And at 16 pounds, and with that 3Ghz processor in there, it will burn your legs AND cut off circulation to them at the same time!
And be annoying as piss.
My dad works for the gubment, and they got him a new laptop. It has a P-4 1.7 in it (i think), the only catch is that it's a desktop 1.7. It has one fan, which has two speeds: Turbo and Off.
Oh, and it doesn't matter what you do with this thing in regards to the fan being on or off. I stole it for a couple of days and ended up over at a friend's house using it, and i crashed on the couch. The damn thing kept me up, because even with the lid closed and it doing a whole lot of nothing, it would be still for 10 minutes or so, then it would spool the fan up to 189218 rpm and blow for 3 minutes, and then it would be quiet. This is at IDLE! Damn thing sounded like a dustbuster!
And I can't imagine that this luggable from Acer is going to sound any better, especially since you know the 3.0 Ghz P-4 extreme isn't available in a laptop version.
~Will
Yeah the Acer starts around $1500, but if you configure it with WinXP, a DVD burner and wireless networking, we are pretty close in price to Apple's solution.
Crack?
Check it: From the article - the notebook with WinXP Professional and a DVD burner will run about $2000.
From Apple's website, a powerbook with a 17" screen, 512 megs of ram (half that of the acer), 80 GB hard disk (half that of the acer), and an ATI mobility radeon 9600 (less good than the NVidia counterpart in the Acer) runs a whopping $3000.
So, to recap -
$3000 Apple laptop
1.33 Ghz G-4
17" screen
80GB hard drive
512 MB ram
DVD burner
$2000 Acer laptop:
3.0 Ghz P-4
17" screen
twice the hard drive space
twice the RAM
DVD burner
Please. Research first. Apple laptops are:
1.) extremely high quality
2.) aesthetically pleasing
3.) lightweight
4.) really really expensive
Please don't take this as an endorsement of one over the other: I love apple hardware, and am probably soon to be in the market for an apple laptop; however, it bugs the shit out of me when people claim that Apple hardware is cheap. It's not.
~Will
Google puts a lot of emphasis into making sure its ads are *good* results.
What are you talking about?!?
I've been using google for about 4 + change years now, and I can remember a time when it used to blow away the competition on link accuracy. Unfortunately that time is no more. People have become experts in the art of google page rank spamming, and anymore, any time you look for *anything* on google, you get more on people selling it to you than how to do it. There are so many link farm pages out there now, it's just insane. I can't count the times I've searched for something only to come up with a page that has a link on it for what I was looking for, along with 3000 other links for the same thing, phrased a little differently.
I'm honestly looking for a new search engine. It's just that, even with all the commercial spamming on google, it's still the best thing out there.
But, don't mistake it - it's not as good as it used to be.
~Will
Isn't is drivel, not dribble?
The funny part is that it's either one or the other.
~Will
Right Here.
We're not giving them anything. We officially have no opinion about the legality of their claim, but if it tells you anything, I host pink fairies, home of the bounty hunt.
Officially, we have no plans to enter into any business partnership with the SCO group.
~Will
Dude, completely outside of mail. It comes from the socket connection, the mail program is listning on port such-and-such, and it gets a connection from 12.34.56.78. That's where.
~Will
What?
I'm sorry, this simply doesn't make sense. I've read it like 4 times trying to figure out what you actually said, but...
Windows ME's release date has nothing to do with how long Win98 was supported. And I'm not sure where you got 4 years from, or what it's in reference to.
In any case, not a fan of RedHat, are you?
~Will