Yeah, and that really picks my arse. I'll never forget watching ST:TNG when the Enterprise came to a Borg cube at a season finale (I forget which, sorry) but I think it was the first time we saw a cube. "We are The Borg..." It absolutely chilled me. Back then the Borg were a force best avoided if possible. The way Voyager and Capt. Duck kept beating them every week by throwing cream pies in their face really pissed me off.
Ah yes, but remember Rick Berman made them. The moment you went to bite said cookie a tachion beam would strike the tasty morsel causing a time rift. You'd have the raw incredients of sugar, hydrogenated palm oil, colour and flavour dripping on your chin. Then you'd have to defeat the Borg (again) to get the cookie back to its baked state.
(nb: I
worked on some satellite internet stuff a few years ago.) If this unit is in
geosynchronous orbit (so a fixed dish can always hit it), it's sitting
almost 36,000 Km over the equator. Assuming your dish is at the equator a
round trip is ~72,000 Km / 300,000 Km/sec (the speed of light) means the
signal travels about a quarter second earth->earth not including any
processing time at the satellite midway point or either end.
I'm a big BSD user (Free and Open), it just happens that I can take and make a joke. Lighten up.
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Spybot can be scheduled. If you want to get autoupdates you have to pay. So what, though, what's worse: configuring them once or cleaning machines randomly?
Site is already slashdotted, here's the compete text:
June,
2004: Patient is complaining of pain in side. 4th time here this month.
Hypochondria a possibility. July 2004: Pain is severe, admit to
hospital. Recommend morphine drip. August 2004: Kidneys failing,
urea levels high. Recommend immediate dialysis. September 2004:
Patient delusional, calls for "grandpa AT&T" October 2004:
Grand mal seizures, complete kidney failure. Heart and lung congestion
worsen. November 2004: Patient in coma. Total brain death,
recommend removing from life support and issuing a DNR. December
2004: Patient dies. Awaiting full autopsy report from Dr. Netcraft.
If your IT head doesn't have system updates somewhat automated with AV and spyware software he should be fired on the spot. That report he sent out was nothing more than a PR move to cover his ass.
I totally agree with your assessment. Just wanted to add some perspective and maybe a more joyful outlook on what is to come.
Yeah, if slashdot had a "+1, Cynical" rating my karma would be through the stratosphere. The only radio I listen to nowadays is AM news & weather. Most mainstream music isn't my cup of tea although there's a good university station here that plays some neat bands.
In my original post I mentioned etunes.com. I meant emusic.com, I've found a lot of really decent smaller bands there I would never have heard of had I gone to the standard CD mall-store or listened to the mainstream radio. Mind you, my favourite band is Motorhead so my observations on art and music should be taken with a grain of salt;)
Remember how video card manufacturers were
tweaking their drivers to perform well in benchmarks? "Musicians", and I use
that term loosely, will be tweaking their songs to score a "hit" on this
service.
FTA: Those "leftfield", illogical and grassroots-inspired departures from the
norm, such as disco or drum and bass, could not have been predicted - but
they shift the mainstream and provide the momentum any culture needs to
remain fresh.
Right, but it will be harder than ever to produce something out of the
mainstream when a record exec will look only at the score on HSS and
potential effect on the bottom line.
FTA: As Smith says, "Art is the one area where people can, and
should be able to, make radical statements. Anything that encourages safe,
consensus-driven music should be used with caution."
Art for art's sake is virtually a thing of the past. Prepare for more of the
same on the FM dial! (thank goodness for etunes.com)
So other than bundling 8 channels of audio over the copper, what really makes it great for your company? The DRM and licensing costs? Seriously, I'm not trolling you: What makes this such a great thing for consumers.
From what I read in the article, it will help the media companies to prevent fair use of the signal. Other than bundling audio, how will really benefit the consumer?
Having 10-20% of the price of your PC being in a bare minimum graphics card just seems ridiculous. What's next? Requiring 5.1 digital sound with multichannel reverb so Longhorn can tell the user "You've got mail!" ?
This is due to the WGF (Windows Graphics Foundation) which will
merge 2D and 3D graphics operations in one, and 3D menus and interfaces
that require atleast Shader 2.0 compliant cards.
That's just
plain stupid. Grandpa & Grandma want to check their email and pics of
the grandkids, why on earth should they require a Radeon
MegaXP293823-XtremeSLI+ to do that? I hope
there's an option to disable all that cycle-wasting crud or MS may be
shooting itself in the foot: how many offices will spend a few hundred
dollars on individual video cards just to upgrade the OS? What about those machines with onboard video (ala Dell?)
Slashdot Mirror
the IE exploit
;)
There's only one?
Yeah, and that really picks my arse. I'll never forget watching ST:TNG when the Enterprise came to a Borg cube at a season finale (I forget which, sorry) but I think it was the first time we saw a cube. "We are The Borg..." It absolutely chilled me. Back then the Borg were a force best avoided if possible. The way Voyager and Capt. Duck kept beating them every week by throwing cream pies in their face really pissed me off.
The last ones in must pay the price.
A Ponzi scheme only fails when there are no more participants. I highly doubt the US population will stop breeding anytime soon.
Yeah, yeah... :P
Ah yes, but remember Rick Berman made them. The moment you went to bite said cookie a tachion beam would strike the tasty morsel causing a time rift. You'd have the raw incredients of sugar, hydrogenated palm oil, colour and flavour dripping on your chin. Then you'd have to defeat the Borg (again) to get the cookie back to its baked state.
I wonder what the ping times would be like...
(nb: I worked on some satellite internet stuff a few years ago.) If this unit is in geosynchronous orbit (so a fixed dish can always hit it), it's sitting almost 36,000 Km over the equator. Assuming your dish is at the equator a round trip is ~72,000 Km / 300,000 Km/sec (the speed of light) means the signal travels about a quarter second earth->earth not including any processing time at the satellite midway point or either end.
I'm a big BSD user (Free and Open), it just happens that I can take and make a joke. Lighten up.
Spybot can be scheduled. If you want to get autoupdates you have to pay. So what, though, what's worse: configuring them once or cleaning machines randomly?
Site is already slashdotted, here's the compete text:
June, 2004: Patient is complaining of pain in side. 4th time here this month. Hypochondria a possibility.
July 2004: Pain is severe, admit to hospital. Recommend morphine drip.
August 2004: Kidneys failing, urea levels high. Recommend immediate dialysis.
September 2004: Patient delusional, calls for "grandpa AT&T"
October 2004: Grand mal seizures, complete kidney failure. Heart and lung congestion worsen.
November 2004: Patient in coma. Total brain death, recommend removing from life support and issuing a DNR.
December 2004: Patient dies. Awaiting full autopsy report from Dr. Netcraft.
If your IT head doesn't have system updates somewhat automated with AV and spyware software he should be fired on the spot. That report he sent out was nothing more than a PR move to cover his ass.
Art is just another word for entertainment.
I wouldn't call sports "art". (nor would I call it "entertainment" but I digress)
I totally agree with your assessment. Just wanted to add some perspective and maybe a more joyful outlook on what is to come.
;)
Yeah, if slashdot had a "+1, Cynical" rating my karma would be through the stratosphere. The only radio I listen to nowadays is AM news & weather. Most mainstream music isn't my cup of tea although there's a good university station here that plays some neat bands.
In my original post I mentioned etunes.com. I meant emusic.com, I've found a lot of really decent smaller bands there I would never have heard of had I gone to the standard CD mall-store or listened to the mainstream radio. Mind you, my favourite band is Motorhead so my observations on art and music should be taken with a grain of salt
Heh I have a jar of Flarp Noise Putty on my desk. The soothing sounds of a fart can really lighten up one's spirit.
That's just great.
Remember how video card manufacturers were tweaking their drivers to perform well in benchmarks? "Musicians", and I use that term loosely, will be tweaking their songs to score a "hit" on this service. Right, but it will be harder than ever to produce something out of the mainstream when a record exec will look only at the score on HSS and potential effect on the bottom line. Art for art's sake is virtually a thing of the past. Prepare for more of the same on the FM dial! (thank goodness for etunes.com)
I think that'd be a concern for a small percentage of users. No, that minor perceived benefit is a trojan horse to get DRM in the house.
So other than bundling 8 channels of audio over the copper, what really makes it great for your company? The DRM and licensing costs? Seriously, I'm not trolling you: What makes this such a great thing for consumers.
HDMI and What it Will Do for You
From what I read in the article, it will help the media companies to prevent fair use of the signal. Other than bundling audio, how will really benefit the consumer?
They have never found the remains of or any living creatures that are inbetween species, or have they
Every fossil and bone are the remains of a species in the process of changing. Evolution doesn't stop at V1.0
That theory is backed by an awful lot of data both observed and learned from repeatable experiments. Damn cultists.
Creationism is for narrow minded, short sighted people who need a (unproven) crutch.
Right on, brother! Now let me get my book of Nostradamus' quatrains...
So is Intelligent Design, which is gaining creedance as an alternative theory.
And the Young Earth theory is gaining creedance... among kooks. I'd like to see hard facts supporting ID.
Having 10-20% of the price of your PC being in a bare minimum graphics card just seems ridiculous. What's next? Requiring 5.1 digital sound with multichannel reverb so Longhorn can tell the user "You've got mail!" ?
This is due to the WGF (Windows Graphics Foundation) which will merge 2D and 3D graphics operations in one, and 3D menus and interfaces that require atleast Shader 2.0 compliant cards.
That's just plain stupid. Grandpa & Grandma want to check their email and pics of the grandkids, why on earth should they require a Radeon MegaXP293823-XtremeSLI+ to do that? I hope there's an option to disable all that cycle-wasting crud or MS may be shooting itself in the foot: how many offices will spend a few hundred dollars on individual video cards just to upgrade the OS? What about those machines with onboard video (ala Dell?)
...someone better explain to them what IANAL means before they start the sodomy lawsuits...
If it doesn't integrate with Exchange it will die. Sad but true.