I wondered about that, too... they're still on sale, and apparently artists like to use them exclusively to carry stuff around on. 'Failure' I think not... badly marketed, definately.
WTF does "bling bling" mean anyway? I've never come across the term before - it sounds like the noise your mobile phone makes...?
Also up until today I thought "Metrosexual" meant people who had a fetish for having sex in underground railways... precisely because about a month ago when I first heard the term on TV they stated that was what it meant (presumably they didn't know either).
Didn't the DVD Forum decide on +RW (or was it -RW? I forget). We still got the format wars...
HD-DVD won't be sold outside the US for a long while as HDTV is entirely a US thing at the moment (probably Japan too as they're really into gadgets). That'll throttle the market, and probably mean that there won't be any films produced on it for a long while - not economic to lock out every country but one (even if that one is a large markey).
Round here -R is about 50% more expensive than +R and I was beginning to think that they'd stopped making -R drives as none of the retailers (large or small) round here stock them any more.
They're flying off the shelves, too, which implies that +R is what's selling to the masses (who ultimately will decide the fate of the format).
All drives can read both standards*, it's writing that's the issue, but then you only write on one drive so who cares? I have a dual format writer, but actually tend to write +R as it's cheaper.
(except some of the cheap crappy ones like the sonys... there's a Sony I nearly bought that has 'supports all DVD formats' in large letters on the box, then on the back in small letters 'Does not support DVD+R'. Whatever... false advertising... I aint buying it anyway).
No, he's going to carry an RF tranmitter that swamps the signal from the persuing police car. Just transmitting a carrier would do (although a bit of white noise can't help).
Within weeks of this stuff going into cars the countermeasures will be available - it's kiddie electronics to build one.
A PC will be more controllable - you can monitor usage, etc. I have a linux box running HostAP rather than a hardware access point, which is a really flexible solution (not many access points out there have stateful firewalls on:) plus I can do things like rotate the WEP keys to stop people breaking into it.
The security bit is probably not so much of an issue for a cafe, but monitoring access (and if you do decided to charge a small fee, that'll be essential) is really useful.
... which contradicts the slashdot headline completely.
The real story appears to be that the frequency will *not* be deregulated - you'll still have to apply for a license. The difference is now you have a slight hope of getting one.
No, it's 64bit mostly, but that depends on the distro. You'll have 64bit libs in/lib64 and 32bit libs in/lib (who thought of *that* scheme!) and your executables will be a mixture - but I'd expect the toolchain to be fully 64bit.
I would have thought that the EM emissions from the telescope itself would be more powerful from the residual signal from a single chip several light years away. Then you've got those pesky thunderstorms on Jupiter....
So I think the reporter is just confused, or talking bollocks deliberately to make himself sound clued up.
GPRS is dog slow though, and unreliable. I had Orange GPRS for about 18 months and it only actually worked for about 3 days a week. I've got T-Mobile GPRS now and while it works it's absolutely horrid - even with images disabled it takes 2-3 minutes to load the BBC News page for example (about 8k IIRC).
I'm hoping 3G will start to fix this... ready for the next upgrade when I can (damn 12 month contracts).
'London' isn't 'a lot of places'... My city (Manchester - 3rd largest in the country, btw.) isn't even listed in their dropdown, so I don't even get a 'to be announced'.
There's a lot of wireless in the UK if you look around for them.. we have the Starbucks network of course, then there's a BT one (that I think is free but never used it) and of course all the thousands of unsecured networks (the largest hospital has an unencrypted wlan broadcasting via a big aerial from the city centre... you can pick it up for about 2-3 miles radius. Not that I'm advocating stealing bandwidth of course...)
So you have to download the email anyway (hint: 99.9% of all users use pop3 to their local ISP), so it's taking up your bandwidth/phone bill, then gets filtered because it's not in some 'whitelist' that the user may or may not have a clue how to operate?
That's just broken. We already have systems that do that much better (bayes, etc.).
A slow CPU will take longer to do the calculation. Period. It's a basic fact of architecture.
Hell, modern CPUs have shedloads of cache that'll speed up the calculation no end (this machine I'm sitting on has 1MB and it's not even cutting edge).
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The Sinclair ZX80/81 were the things that created home computing (at least in the UK).
Amigas sold like hot cakes, and still have a large (overly nostalgic IMO) following.
Neither of them exactly failed...
I wondered about that, too... they're still on sale, and apparently artists like to use them exclusively to carry stuff around on. 'Failure' I think not... badly marketed, definately.
Why? Who he?
WTF does "bling bling" mean anyway? I've never come across the term before - it sounds like the noise your mobile phone makes...?
Also up until today I thought "Metrosexual" meant people who had a fetish for having sex in underground railways... precisely because about a month ago when I first heard the term on TV they stated that was what it meant (presumably they didn't know either).
Dual layer... cool. I won't have to fart around with InstantCopy any more :)
Didn't the DVD Forum decide on +RW (or was it -RW? I forget). We still got the format wars...
HD-DVD won't be sold outside the US for a long while as HDTV is entirely a US thing at the moment (probably Japan too as they're really into gadgets). That'll throttle the market, and probably mean that there won't be any films produced on it for a long while - not economic to lock out every country but one (even if that one is a large markey).
Must depend on the area.
Round here -R is about 50% more expensive than +R and I was beginning to think that they'd stopped making -R drives as none of the retailers (large or small) round here stock them any more.
They're flying off the shelves, too, which implies that +R is what's selling to the masses (who ultimately will decide the fate of the format).
All drives can read both standards*, it's writing that's the issue, but then you only write on one drive so who cares? I have a dual format writer, but actually tend to write +R as it's cheaper.
(except some of the cheap crappy ones like the sonys... there's a Sony I nearly bought that has 'supports all DVD formats' in large letters on the box, then on the back in small letters 'Does not support DVD+R'. Whatever... false advertising... I aint buying it anyway).
It's called the debian boot CD :)
No, he's going to carry an RF tranmitter that swamps the signal from the persuing police car. Just transmitting a carrier would do (although a bit of white noise can't help).
Within weeks of this stuff going into cars the countermeasures will be available - it's kiddie electronics to build one.
I was surprised that Slashdot didn't run a story exclusively about the ad.
They did... twice, IIRC.
I've never really believed it wasn't faked at least partly (eg. when the wheels run uphill... just doesn't seem to make sense without trickery).
Targeted advertising... A slashdot dating agency is *so* targetted it's unbelievable. It's not like most of use can get a *real* date is it? :)
Coke couldn't say 'Pepsi, it's crap' because that's an assertion that can be challenged (in court if necessary).
They could probably get away with '9 out of 10 people who we surveyed said that they preferred coke' though.
If that's true, then it's illegal for a US citizen to contribute to the 2.6.0 kernel too, since that has crypto in it.
A PC will be more controllable - you can monitor usage, etc. I have a linux box running HostAP rather than a hardware access point, which is a really flexible solution (not many access points out there have stateful firewalls on :) plus I can do things like rotate the WEP keys to stop people breaking into it.
The security bit is probably not so much of an issue for a cafe, but monitoring access (and if you do decided to charge a small fee, that'll be essential) is really useful.
... which contradicts the slashdot headline completely.
The real story appears to be that the frequency will *not* be deregulated - you'll still have to apply for a license. The difference is now you have a slight hope of getting one.
They *are* trying to sell something - in this case themselves (like prostitution, except it doesn't pay as well).
A better definition of spam is UBE not UCE - unsolicited *bulk* email. My own personal definition is "If I didn't *explicitly* ask for it, it's spam".
No, it's 64bit mostly, but that depends on the distro. You'll have 64bit libs in /lib64 and 32bit libs in /lib (who thought of *that* scheme!) and your executables will be a mixture - but I'd expect the toolchain to be fully 64bit.
Minutes, Years, whatever...
:)
I was trying to confuse the martians - star fleet regulations, ya' know
I would have thought that the EM emissions from the telescope itself would be more powerful from the residual signal from a single chip several light years away. Then you've got those pesky thunderstorms on Jupiter....
So I think the reporter is just confused, or talking bollocks deliberately to make himself sound clued up.
GPRS is dog slow though, and unreliable. I had Orange GPRS for about 18 months and it only actually worked for about 3 days a week. I've got T-Mobile GPRS now and while it works it's absolutely horrid - even with images disabled it takes 2-3 minutes to load the BBC News page for example (about 8k IIRC).
I'm hoping 3G will start to fix this... ready for the next upgrade when I can (damn 12 month contracts).
'London' isn't 'a lot of places'... My city (Manchester - 3rd largest in the country, btw.) isn't even listed in their dropdown, so I don't even get a 'to be announced'.
There's a lot of wireless in the UK if you look around for them.. we have the Starbucks network of course, then there's a BT one (that I think is free but never used it) and of course all the thousands of unsecured networks (the largest hospital has an unencrypted wlan broadcasting via a big aerial from the city centre... you can pick it up for about 2-3 miles radius. Not that I'm advocating stealing bandwidth of course...)
Works here... There's even a native 64bit version I 'm told
So you have to download the email anyway (hint: 99.9% of all users use pop3 to their local ISP), so it's taking up your bandwidth/phone bill, then gets filtered because it's not in some 'whitelist' that the user may or may not have a clue how to operate?
That's just broken. We already have systems that do that much better (bayes, etc.).
Yes, but it's bollocks.
A slow CPU will take longer to do the calculation. Period. It's a basic fact of architecture.
Hell, modern CPUs have shedloads of cache that'll speed up the calculation no end (this machine I'm sitting on has 1MB and it's not even cutting edge).