It allows me to (for instance) do high-quality digital video editing work, keeping multiple copies of everything I do.
I allows larger organisations to keep massive streaming video collections. If CNN want to keep hold of all the footage they produce in a day, they can now do it on a couple of Hard Drives, rather than the massive clusters they needed before.
It means I can take my Tivo and tell it to hit every news program, all the cartoon channel and anything with the word "Trek" in it, then come back and throw away what I don't want later.
It's not going to affect how many Word Documents I store, but it could mean that I can store every phone conversation I ever have, just in case anyone points the finger at tech-support.
I didn't know that there was a problem with drives over 137GB in IDE. Is there an extension planned? Or are we doomed to proprietary extensions from here on out?
For what I do, which is production of front ends onto databases, GUI is invaluable.
Being able to drag and drop items onto a form, set a few properties, add in a few bits and pieces of code for unusual circumstances and validation, and just run it, is great.
For device drivers and command line programs, it may not be nearly as useful.
Of course, I find some facilities (like syntax highlighting, procedure finding, and multiple debugging windows) absolutely essential too, and would probably miss those if I didn't have a decent IDE.
Really, who cares? I've got Gnutella and WinMX and I'm sticking to them.
Napster's only chance was to get a tidal wave of defence for its actions, and it failed. In its favour, it inspired a lot of people, and its caused a lot people to rethink their beliefs on intellectual property.
But it's dead and gone now, no point worrying about the corpse. _____
I started watching the x-files and it was a cool 'outer limits' style show, with different spookiness each week. And that was cool.
And then the plot arc stuff happened and that was immensely cool. I _love_ ongoing stories ever since Bab5 got me addicted (and then DS9 and Buffy).
And then the plot arc stuff went on, and on, and on, and on. And eventually I realised that there wasn't an end point and that Carter was just making it up as he went along.
It occured to me a while back that.NET while affect this immensely.
Consider,.NET compilers compile to an intermediate code level that isn't actually transformed into machine code until they are run for the first time on the target machine.
This means that all you have to do to get the most out of your machine is make sure you have the.NET IL->machine code compiler for your specific CPU and all.NET code will be totally optimised for _your_ CPU.
Of course, this also means that you don't need to recompile to work on any CPU that has the CLR available on it, which makes transferring to IA64 (or any other architecture) a lot easier. _____
Some people _are_ throwing money at solid state tech. And some people are throwing money at hard disks. The ones throwing money at hard disks are keeping waaaay ahead of the solid state people, indicated that perhaps solid state drives of massive size aren't that easy to produce... _____
With the headway made by GNU/FSF, I find it hard to believe that in ten years, the average computer user will still be the same old ignorant follower.
I think you undersetimate the stupidity of the majority of the population. The average slashdotter has an IQ over 120, the average person has an IQ of 100, and (obviously) half of them are dumber than that. They have neither the interest in or the capability to understand computers on anything more than a very surface level. _____
Gold isn't actually intrinsically worth anything. It's a pretty metal, with uses for a few industrial applications, but most of its historic value is down to it being easily workable and looking nice. It's modern value is mostly down to people having been told it's worth a lot (like Diamonds, which again are worth money purely because they're worth money and pretty). _____
I know it's a heretical stance to take, but I'd say that to teach OOP concepts, a visual language would be best.
It took me a while to get my head round OOP in the first place, but working in windows, when you can instantly show the subclassing of a textbox into a purple textbox (for instance), it's very easy to get the basic concepts across to people in a non-abstract manner. Having got those concepts across, it's then very easy to move onto non-visual languages and apply the concepts you've learnt. _____
If, as you might expect, the air bag deploying is a result of some kind of impact, the GPS may suddenly cease to function. Knowing that it has suddenly ceased to do so may be enough to save your life. _____
I've been experimenting with Radio Userland which allows me to pick up headlines from multiple sites.
Anyone know where to find lists of useful ones? I'm trying to find the one for blues news, which is available on slashdot, but I can't work out where to access it from.
Simply taking the light from point a and passing it onto point b on the diametricall opposite side works as a method of invisibility _only_ if you have a static viewing angle. If the viewer looks at you from a lightly different angle, point b is no longer diametrically opposed to point a and the illusion is obvious. _____
How does this hurt me? Nobody got my name. Nobody got my phone number. I lost nothing. My privacy wasn't even invaded, because all they know is that some people like watching certain shows in certain proportions.
I really don't see the problem. I want them to know what shows I watch. That way they might make more of them. _____
Having support for the latest standards and the old standards in a way that doesn't break one or the other is incredibly time consuming.
If we ever want to progress to the new technology that's now available, then at some point we have to say 'enough' and stop supporting the older browsers.
I'd rather it was done gracefully (possibly by having a plain text site for those people below a certain level), but I want the new tech to be used. _____
I've got my tivo to record on, video on demand is just arriving. 3 years from now the idea of having tapes to pass about the place will seem quaint. _____
Slashdot Mirror
but they are running IIS Which isn't a free web server, they should have paid plenty of $ to run it
Actually, IIS is entirely free. Or at least it comes built into Windows 2000 and 98, and is downloadable for free for NT and 95.
It allows me to (for instance) do high-quality digital video editing work, keeping multiple copies of everything I do.
I allows larger organisations to keep massive streaming video collections. If CNN want to keep hold of all the footage they produce in a day, they can now do it on a couple of Hard Drives, rather than the massive clusters they needed before.
It means I can take my Tivo and tell it to hit every news program, all the cartoon channel and anything with the word "Trek" in it, then come back and throw away what I don't want later.
It's not going to affect how many Word Documents I store, but it could mean that I can store every phone conversation I ever have, just in case anyone points the finger at tech-support.
I didn't know that there was a problem with drives over 137GB in IDE. Is there an extension planned? Or are we doomed to proprietary extensions from here on out?
For what I do, which is production of front ends onto databases, GUI is invaluable.
Being able to drag and drop items onto a form, set a few properties, add in a few bits and pieces of code for unusual circumstances and validation, and just run it, is great.
For device drivers and command line programs, it may not be nearly as useful.
Of course, I find some facilities (like syntax highlighting, procedure finding, and multiple debugging windows) absolutely essential too, and would probably miss those if I didn't have a decent IDE.
Actually, I believe the IL that C# compiles to is stack based.
I'm willing to be proved wrong however.
Really, who cares? I've got Gnutella and WinMX and I'm sticking to them.
Napster's only chance was to get a tidal wave of defence for its actions, and it failed. In its favour, it inspired a lot of people, and its caused a lot people to rethink their beliefs on intellectual property.
But it's dead and gone now, no point worrying about the corpse.
_____
I'm stealing your comment for my .sig
Any objections, feel free to get in contact.
_____
I started watching the x-files and it was a cool 'outer limits' style show, with different spookiness each week. And that was cool.
And then the plot arc stuff happened and that was immensely cool. I _love_ ongoing stories ever since Bab5 got me addicted (and then DS9 and Buffy).
And then the plot arc stuff went on, and on, and on, and on. And eventually I realised that there wasn't an end point and that Carter was just making it up as he went along.
And it died for me.
_____
It occured to me a while back that .NET while affect this immensely.
.NET compilers compile to an intermediate code level that isn't actually transformed into machine code until they are run for the first time on the target machine.
.NET IL->machine code compiler for your specific CPU and all .NET code will be totally optimised for _your_ CPU.
Consider,
This means that all you have to do to get the most out of your machine is make sure you have the
Of course, this also means that you don't need to recompile to work on any CPU that has the CLR available on it, which makes transferring to IA64 (or any other architecture) a lot easier.
_____
Some people _are_ throwing money at solid state tech. And some people are throwing money at hard disks. The ones throwing money at hard disks are keeping waaaay ahead of the solid state people, indicated that perhaps solid state drives of massive size aren't that easy to produce...
_____
With the headway made by GNU/FSF, I find it hard to believe that in ten years, the average computer user will still be the same old ignorant follower.
I think you undersetimate the stupidity of the majority of the population. The average slashdotter has an IQ over 120, the average person has an IQ of 100, and (obviously) half of them are dumber than that.
They have neither the interest in or the capability to understand computers on anything more than a very surface level.
_____
Gold isn't actually intrinsically worth anything. It's a pretty metal, with uses for a few industrial applications, but most of its historic value is down to it being easily workable and looking nice. It's modern value is mostly down to people having been told it's worth a lot (like Diamonds, which again are worth money purely because they're worth money and pretty).
_____
I know it's a heretical stance to take, but I'd say that to teach OOP concepts, a visual language would be best.
It took me a while to get my head round OOP in the first place, but working in windows, when you can instantly show the subclassing of a textbox into a purple textbox (for instance), it's very easy to get the basic concepts across to people in a non-abstract manner. Having got those concepts across, it's then very easy to move onto non-visual languages and apply the concepts you've learnt.
_____
If, as you might expect, the air bag deploying is a result of some kind of impact, the GPS may suddenly cease to function. Knowing that it has suddenly ceased to do so may be enough to save your life.
_____
I've been experimenting with Radio Userland which allows me to pick up headlines from multiple sites.
Anyone know where to find lists of useful ones? I'm trying to find the one for blues news, which is available on slashdot, but I can't work out where to access it from.
Cheers,
Andy D
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are people so stupid that they cannot analyze *REAL* items against one another except to weigh their Markatroid Interst(TM)?
Yes.
The average IQ is 100. This is not very smart at all. Half the population is stupider than that.
Next silly question?
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Much though we love to hate Microsoft, there was no way that this kind of land grab was what was intended.
I suspect that some lawyer got overzealous when setting up the original legalese, and that MS has now realised what was actually up there.
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And gold is worth money because??????
It's just lumps of metal, you know.
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Simply taking the light from point a and passing it onto point b on the diametricall opposite side works as a method of invisibility _only_ if you have a static viewing angle. If the viewer looks at you from a lightly different angle, point b is no longer diametrically opposed to point a and the illusion is obvious.
_____
How does this hurt me? Nobody got my name. Nobody got my phone number. I lost nothing. My privacy wasn't even invaded, because all they know is that some people like watching certain shows in certain proportions.
I really don't see the problem. I want them to know what shows I watch. That way they might make more of them.
_____
"It's the very fact that people build obsessive communities around pop entertainment that I find distressing"
pop=popular=whatever most people like.
entertainment=that which is enjoyable.
You don't like the fact that people build communities around what most people enjoy? Just because it's what is enjoyed by most people?
That seems elitist for the sake of it.
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Having support for the latest standards and the old standards in a way that doesn't break one or the other is incredibly time consuming.
If we ever want to progress to the new technology that's now available, then at some point we have to say 'enough' and stop supporting the older browsers.
I'd rather it was done gracefully (possibly by having a plain text site for those people below a certain level), but I want the new tech to be used.
_____
I can open up Word, and just start typing what I want to see, sprinkle in a few bits of formatting and hit print, all within 30 seconds.
LaTEX just doesn't allow you to do that. You can't just drag images into it either.
It may well be great for massive documents, but I wouldn't have secretaries type up letters on it.
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You report back to management what the cost implications of both methods are and let _them_ make a decision.
It's _their_ software, not yours and _they_ have to decide what to do with it.
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Why would I want tapes?
I've got my tivo to record on, video on demand is just arriving. 3 years from now the idea of having tapes to pass about the place will seem quaint.
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