I define broadband in terms of the total round-trip latency to fetch all bytes of a given object and the number of such given objects that can be pushed through the pipe. For the World Wide Web, my standard object is one 10 KB HTTP download followed by five possibly-simultaneous 10 KB HTTP downloads followed by two possibly-simultaneous 10 KB HTTP downloads (e.g. HTML -> CSS -> page background images, or frameset -> HTML -> images), and because of the round-trip latency inherent in communication with geostationary satellites, v.90 can be as good as or better than satellite Internet access.
For downloading an operating system, on the other hand, the standard object is a 640 MB HTTP download, quantity one to three. Because of the high volume of each object, latency is affected by total throughput more than by first-byte latency. Downloading three 640 MB.iso files through v.90 up USPS down can be much faster than downloading them through v.90 up and down because USPS parallelizes more efficiently.
Watch the ISP's dial software and diagnostic software make several dozen calls to functions that Wine has Not Yet Implemented(tm), especially to undocumented functions.
Such is the case with MSN or AOL broadband in areas where MSN or AOL broadband's only residential-priced competition is dial-up.
Would be an interesting situation where one could get an artist's release from two different labels
None of the major labels' artist contracts would allow this. Most labels either take the copyright on the recording outright as a "work for hire" or (for the most established recording artists) demand an exclusive license for a long term.
Why is it so hard to ship source code tarballs? Are they too big? Many can be slimmed down. For example, stripping everything out of the Linux kernel that does not apply to the x86 architecture would probably save space.
The problem is the "you're on your own, no support" aspect. I tried to install Mandrake Linux 9.2 RC1 last night, and though the installer found my Radeon 9000 card, I got the "Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration" error when I tried to test X11.
The last version of Knoppix I tried 1. didn't appear to have 2D acceleration on my Radeon card, 2. locked the CD-ROM drive, requiring the user to have two CD-ROM drives in order to get anything done, and 3. took several minutes to load the default graphical web browser or the default word processor.
Mandrake has been praised for its ease of installation/configuration.
Then why didn't X11 "just work" last night when I tried to install Mandrake 9.2 RC1? It found my ATI Radeon 9000 video card (one VGA, one TV) and recognized it as a Radeon with dual-head, but when I tried to test X during installation, I got the following error:
"(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Try to change some parameters"
Somebody comes up with a Revolutionary New Device (TM) which they then proceed to write their own API for. Another manufacturer makes something similar, and
If you are stuck with AOL, and you notice that it is caching dynamic content, your most obvious recourse is to choose an ISP that doesn't do so.
Not all people receiving the list have that luxury. They may live in an area where the only available broadband is from AOL or from MSN, and they don't want to spend $200,000 to pack up and move away from the rest of the extended family.
However, there are tricks to fool even the most aggressive caching proxies. One involves randomly generating a request URI in client-side ECMAScript.
Kirby Tilt and Tumble for Game Boy Color used a tilt sensor to control a pink puffball that rolled around on the screen. (It's one of the few games that won't work well on the SP or on the Game Boy Player.)
Would just clicking "I Agree" to a contract displayed in a scrolling read-only textarea be considered "well-recognized in society that going through this specific ritual means entering an agreement"?
Not always. America Online has a transparent caching proxy in place that handles all outgoing port 80 connections. I don't know if it's been fixed, but it used to have extremely stale pages in its cache.
If one country switched to meters, pilots would be confused when flying over that country. If all countries switched to meters simultaneously, all pilots would be confused at the same time.
Open Content recordings must be made of Open Content musical works. (Musical works are created by songwriters and reproduced in sheet music; recordings are created by performers and audio engineers and reproduced in audio CDs.) If a songwriter decides to write Open Content musical works, how can he or she verify that the songs are
in fact original musical works?
The users are too lazy to type a couple of characters into Google
Too lazy, or too busy to take an hour experimenting with fruitless queries? Not everybody is enough of a Google master to get relevant results on the first, second, or third try. What keywords did you use in your query?
If they had been written in an object oriented language (such as C++) instead of Perl
What you are looking for is consumer-to-consumer sales software. This is often done with an auction model. However, most technologies to do C2C are patented out the you-know-whatse in many jurisdictions, either by eBay or by the latest holding company to sue eBay.
This is an artifact of how the machines generate their energy. Many types of machines generate forms of waste products in the process; for humans this is called "piss." Some waste products are solid or liquid, and somebody has to clean out the machine's waste compartment.
Then, once we teach some robots to build the robot building robots...
By then, robots will probably be Doing It(tm) to make more robots. I figured that you wouldn't recognize that robots can be made to carry instructions to reproduce more like them, seeing as how most Slashdot readers don't perform the analogous human activity often.
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I define broadband in terms of the total round-trip latency to fetch all bytes of a given object and the number of such given objects that can be pushed through the pipe. For the World Wide Web, my standard object is one 10 KB HTTP download followed by five possibly-simultaneous 10 KB HTTP downloads followed by two possibly-simultaneous 10 KB HTTP downloads (e.g. HTML -> CSS -> page background images, or frameset -> HTML -> images), and because of the round-trip latency inherent in communication with geostationary satellites, v.90 can be as good as or better than satellite Internet access.
For downloading an operating system, on the other hand, the standard object is a 640 MB HTTP download, quantity one to three. Because of the high volume of each object, latency is affected by total throughput more than by first-byte latency. Downloading three 640 MB .iso files through v.90 up USPS down can be much faster than downloading them through v.90 up and down because USPS parallelizes more efficiently.
Watch the ISP's dial software and diagnostic software make several dozen calls to functions that Wine has Not Yet Implemented(tm), especially to undocumented functions.
Such is the case with MSN or AOL broadband in areas where MSN or AOL broadband's only residential-priced competition is dial-up.
Explain why Cassette is still going to be cheaper.
Less demand among consumers for cassettes.
Some CDs have bonus tracks not available on cassette, and the songwriter and recording artist get paid only for the CDs.
A CD case typically has more space for liner notes than a cassette case does, and the graphic artist gets paid only for the copies included with CDs.
Some newer CDs come with promotional items such as DVDs containing music videos and glimpses into production.
Would be an interesting situation where one could get an artist's release from two different labels
None of the major labels' artist contracts would allow this. Most labels either take the copyright on the recording outright as a "work for hire" or (for the most established recording artists) demand an exclusive license for a long term.
$0.02 worth of plastic
The materials are not nearly as important as the information. Would a person be worth as much if his body were reduced to raw materials?
So tell said bozo you are using windows.
What if said bozo tells you to "Please run our diagnostic software and read me the code it reports"?
If you've been using a DVD drive as a cupholder, and you still want a cupholder while watching DVDs, choose one of the following:
And this is why business avoid the GPL
Why is it so hard to ship source code tarballs? Are they too big? Many can be slimmed down. For example, stripping everything out of the Linux kernel that does not apply to the x86 architecture would probably save space.
I have never had any problems getting components replaced.
You obviously haven't been through the experience of component makers pointing fingers at one another.
The problem is the "you're on your own, no support" aspect. I tried to install Mandrake Linux 9.2 RC1 last night, and though the installer found my Radeon 9000 card, I got the "Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration" error when I tried to test X11.
The last version of Knoppix I tried 1. didn't appear to have 2D acceleration on my Radeon card, 2. locked the CD-ROM drive, requiring the user to have two CD-ROM drives in order to get anything done, and 3. took several minutes to load the default graphical web browser or the default word processor.
Mandrake has been praised for its ease of installation/configuration.
Then why didn't X11 "just work" last night when I tried to install Mandrake 9.2 RC1? It found my ATI Radeon 9000 video card (one VGA, one TV) and recognized it as a Radeon with dual-head, but when I tried to test X during installation, I got the following error:
Somebody comes up with a Revolutionary New Device (TM) which they then proceed to write their own API for. Another manufacturer makes something similar, and
Gets sued.
If you are stuck with AOL, and you notice that it is caching dynamic content, your most obvious recourse is to choose an ISP that doesn't do so.
Not all people receiving the list have that luxury. They may live in an area where the only available broadband is from AOL or from MSN, and they don't want to spend $200,000 to pack up and move away from the rest of the extended family.
However, there are tricks to fool even the most aggressive caching proxies. One involves randomly generating a request URI in client-side ECMAScript.
Kirby Tilt and Tumble for Game Boy Color used a tilt sensor to control a pink puffball that rolled around on the screen. (It's one of the few games that won't work well on the SP or on the Game Boy Player.)
Would just clicking "I Agree" to a contract displayed in a scrolling read-only textarea be considered "well-recognized in society that going through this specific ritual means entering an agreement"?
port 80 requests go in realtime.
Not always. America Online has a transparent caching proxy in place that handles all outgoing port 80 connections. I don't know if it's been fixed, but it used to have extremely stale pages in its cache.
If one country switched to meters, pilots would be confused when flying over that country. If all countries switched to meters simultaneously, all pilots would be confused at the same time.
feet and miles, that not even England uses anymore
I've read that air traffic controllers everywhere but a couple countries still use feet instead of meters as the basic unit of altitude.
Open Content friendly recording companies
Open Content recordings must be made of Open Content musical works. (Musical works are created by songwriters and reproduced in sheet music; recordings are created by performers and audio engineers and reproduced in audio CDs.) If a songwriter decides to write Open Content musical works, how can he or she verify that the songs are in fact original musical works?
The users are too lazy to type a couple of characters into Google
Too lazy, or too busy to take an hour experimenting with fruitless queries? Not everybody is enough of a Google master to get relevant results on the first, second, or third try. What keywords did you use in your query?
If they had been written in an object oriented language (such as C++) instead of Perl
Perl supports object orientation, and so do Lisp and Python.
What you are looking for is consumer-to-consumer sales software. This is often done with an auction model. However, most technologies to do C2C are patented out the you-know-whatse in many jurisdictions, either by eBay or by the latest holding company to sue eBay.
Answer: MacOS uses a proprietary 8-bit character set, NOT 8859.
Classic Mac OS did use a proprietary "MacRoman" encoding, but hasn't Mac OS X switched to something Unicode-based?
robots ... never need a ... piss break
This is an artifact of how the machines generate their energy. Many types of machines generate forms of waste products in the process; for humans this is called "piss." Some waste products are solid or liquid, and somebody has to clean out the machine's waste compartment.
Then, once we teach some robots to build the robot building robots...
By then, robots will probably be Doing It(tm) to make more robots. I figured that you wouldn't recognize that robots can be made to carry instructions to reproduce more like them, seeing as how most Slashdot readers don't perform the analogous human activity often.