who believes he or she has to get iPod for free... No matter how much Apple will charge, there always one on a crowd complaining 'What is this so expensive? I can't afford it. Can Apply give me a personal discount?'. I personally saw quite a few postings like that.
Shure, bud. Go ahead and contact Steve Jobs directly. I'm sure he'll be very attentive to your needs.
come on, hard drives is a moving target as well. Their density grows fairly rapidly. What do you think? CF capacity will go up and price will go down, but hard drive will remain as it is now. Rather silly thought, I would say. Expect the price difference be in the range something like 1:10 (hard drive to CF) *not* on a temporary basis, but well into the future. By the time we can get 8GB CF for $1,000, there will be 8GB microdrive for $100. Capiche?
my interests are primarily in computer and network performance evaluation, and writing the appropriate tools or using some modeling/simulator tools (like OPNET or NS). Several years ago when I had to change the job, I had two offers. One was exactly what I was looking for (evaluating performance of networked applications), with some salary decrease. Another was truly outstanding offer in terms of salary (over 100 grands), *BUT* I had to learn and work with firewalls and general security issues - for which I have exactly zero interest. I've selected the first offer. The funny part is that the company whose offer I've accepted went through the series of massive layoffs, and as a result I'm currently enemployed -- yet I still believe I've made a right decision, that is, didn't go just for the big bucks. The key for me is enjoying doing what you really like to do. So right now I'm taking some fairly advanced courses in computer and network performance (on post-grad level) which keeps me busy, and hope for the better, but I still don't even consider learning firewalls and security even if with this skills I could probably get an employment really quickly. But that's my attitude. If some biologist doesn't particuarly care about what he's doing, and plumbing pays more, why not plumbing? That's his attitude.
but when Google adequiared DEJA, they've dropped this feature. Granted, DEJA had some deficiencies, and in particular usenet group search was atrocious. Now of course deja search is excellent, and so e-mail is coming back as well. Nice...Since I spend lots of time on deja, it will be quite natural for me to use google e-mail as well (and probably many of the former deja users will do the same)
this has nothing to do with internet/www
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a very well known and common symptom. before internet those affected just looked through the medical references...
First, IPv4 vs IPv6. Not only there is no pressing need to move to IPv6, most of the applications/tools/utilities are not written to accomodate IPv6. As simple as that.
Second, Perl. Personally, I gave up on this language, that is, won't be using it for any projects. First, there was a painful transition from v4 to v5, and now the happy Perl crowd want to present us with another painful transition, from v5 to v6. Thanks but no thanks. For all I care, Larry Wall and Co. are just the bunch of happy idiots who want to have fun but have no clue what production environment is all about. Perl is no longer a serious effort. it is a 'Church of Perl', with its true believers, and I'm having none of that. To be more specific, they don't talk about things like 'compatibility' or 'ease of maintenance'. Instead they talk about 'Perl as a part of post-modern culture'. enough said. They can have all post-modern culture they can eat.
to produce decent digital pictures. In fact, having very large number of pixels introduced lots of noise. The latest Sony camera - 8M pixels - is a good example. The camera simply isn't good. High level of noise, and color abberations. They've crammed too many pixels in CCD with the area too small.
OTOH, the high quality lenses and high quality post-processing of captured image are important factors in getting decent digital pictures. Yet 'unwashed masses' only understand one thing - the magic pixel number.
is that MD media is no longer limited to strictly music material, using Sony proprietory format. Instead it uses FAT, and treats any type of data the same way, just like the rest of the world does.
Add the following factors:
(i) excellent price per GB. Beats the hell out of hard drive based players.
(ii) energy efficient. just check the specs of existing MD players, folks. A single set of baterries last something like 40-50 hours.
Of course, what's missing is the ability to choose some arbitrary compression format. Alas, we are still limited to ATRAC. Not that I have something against this format personally, but having the ability to do MP3 and AAC would be nice. Yet the latest reincarnation of ATRAC, ATRAC-S is quite good. Incidently, with 'high quality' level, you'll get about 8 hours on a new 1GB media.
What Sony really needs is to divorse the MD format from ATRAC. The first step is made: MD layout is no longer tied up to specific format, but uses FAT, general data format. So we can store some general data on MD. Just imagine if Sony adds some other decoders. This will literally blow away most of the players. Yet even with only ATRAC decoder available, I still expect revitilized interest in this format. Seems like Sony is on a right track. Not just higher density MD, but moving to 'general purposes media' with excellent characteristics.
My personal recollection - when microcomputer were still evolving. There was a big article, forgot which publication, talked about intel 286 and forthcoming 386. The author says something like this: 386 is certainly overkill. Why do we ever need that much of computing power in microprocessor?
I guess it was sometime in mid to late 80s. Prevailing mentality of that time was that 'There is a big iron, mainframe, and then there are some minis like DEC or Prime, and then there are those intel-based desktops suitable for some word processing and other lightweight tasks.
Little did the author know that microprocessor would become the heart of the computers practically of any range - from micros to 'big iron' and supercomputers.
Regarding James Turner, PLEASE check the LinuxToday thread "Is Linux ready for Desktop".
In this thread they discuss two articles, one by aforementioned James Turner. Because James Turner's laptop's wireless adapter doesn't work with Linux, he came to the conclusion that "Linux is Not Ready for Desktop". When he was suggested that his conclusion is completely illogical, and non-sensical, he started jumping around, and suggested his opponents "To Grow Up". Apparently this article about Linux community is sort of continuation of this discussion.
Seems like this is James Turner who'll never grow up.
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man, oh man, you are the hopeless idealist ...
I would have demanded that the handheld that controlls me runs Linux.
Homeless of the USA, unite! Imagine Beowulf of us!
if Bush declares that having the iPod is the right of every american, I'm sure, every slashdotter will vote for him! Huray!
who believes he or she has to get iPod for free ... No matter how much Apple will charge, there always one on a crowd complaining 'What is this so expensive? I can't afford it. Can Apply give me a personal discount?'. I personally saw quite a few postings like that.
Shure, bud. Go ahead and contact Steve Jobs directly. I'm sure he'll be very attentive to your needs.
if I search on "Balmer's monkey dance", what would I get?
yo, dude, you have no clue. why keyboard? your hands will be busy with something else ...
since like they have a good experience in doing this kind of things lately ...
yes, this is probably a joke in bad taste. I'm not sure.
come on, hard drives is a moving target as well. Their density grows fairly rapidly. What do you think? CF capacity will go up and price will go down, but hard drive will remain as it is now. Rather silly thought, I would say. Expect the price difference be in the range something like 1:10 (hard drive to CF) *not* on a temporary basis, but well into the future. By the time we can get 8GB CF for $1,000, there will be 8GB microdrive for $100. Capiche?
my interests are primarily in computer and network performance evaluation, and writing the appropriate tools or using some modeling/simulator tools (like OPNET or NS). Several years ago when I had to change the job, I had two offers. One was exactly what I was looking for (evaluating performance of networked applications), with some salary decrease. Another was truly outstanding offer in terms of salary (over 100 grands), *BUT* I had to learn and work with firewalls and general security issues - for which I have exactly zero interest. I've selected the first offer. The funny part is that the company whose offer I've accepted went through the series of massive layoffs, and as a result I'm currently enemployed -- yet I still believe I've made a right decision, that is, didn't go just for the big bucks. The key for me is enjoying doing what you really like to do. So right now I'm taking some fairly advanced courses in computer and network performance (on post-grad level) which keeps me busy, and hope for the better, but I still don't even consider learning firewalls and security even if with this skills I could probably get an employment really quickly. But that's my attitude. If some biologist doesn't particuarly care about what he's doing, and plumbing pays more, why not plumbing? That's his attitude.
by the whole 0.16%!!!
(the first small step toward fame, I hope)
but when Google adequiared DEJA, they've dropped this feature. Granted, DEJA had some deficiencies, and in particular usenet group search was atrocious. Now of course deja search is excellent, and so e-mail is coming back as well. Nice ...Since I spend lots of time on deja, it will be quite natural for me to use google e-mail as well (and probably many of the former deja users will do the same)
a very well known and common symptom. before internet those affected just looked through the medical references ...
wrong forum? I don't think so.
every time I load CD in it, the CD drive makes some funny noises. I *really* think it sounds like Lambroughini. Or may be Mazerati...
sorry, couldn't resist :-)
Try to imagine beowulf of linuxes inside the single instance of Windows. (I can't)
nt.
First, IPv4 vs IPv6. Not only there is no pressing need to move to IPv6, most of the applications/tools/utilities are not written to accomodate IPv6. As simple as that.
Second, Perl. Personally, I gave up on this language, that is, won't be using it for any projects. First, there was a painful transition from v4 to v5, and now the happy Perl crowd want to present us with another painful transition, from v5 to v6. Thanks but no thanks. For all I care, Larry Wall and Co. are just the bunch of happy idiots who want to have fun but have no clue what production environment is all about. Perl is no longer a serious effort. it is a 'Church of Perl', with its true believers, and I'm having none of that. To be more specific, they don't talk about things like 'compatibility' or 'ease of maintenance'. Instead they talk about 'Perl as a part of post-modern culture'. enough said. They can have all post-modern culture they can eat.
to produce decent digital pictures. In fact, having very large number of pixels introduced lots of noise. The latest Sony camera - 8M pixels - is a good example. The camera simply isn't good. High level of noise, and color abberations. They've crammed too many pixels in CCD with the area too small.
OTOH, the high quality lenses and high quality post-processing of captured image are important factors in getting decent digital pictures. Yet 'unwashed masses' only understand one thing - the magic pixel number.
so 'Intelligent dance music' is neither dance nor intelligent. Is this music?
as well as none of the sequels ...
Sir, you are a dickhead.
and shove it into you anal orifice.
The world is going MP4/AAC. Got it?
is that MD media is no longer limited to strictly music material, using Sony proprietory format. Instead it uses FAT, and treats any type of data the same way, just like the rest of the world does.
Add the following factors:
(i) excellent price per GB. Beats the hell out of hard drive based players.
(ii) energy efficient. just check the specs of existing MD players, folks. A single set of baterries last something like 40-50 hours.
Of course, what's missing is the ability to choose some arbitrary compression format. Alas, we are still limited to ATRAC. Not that I have something against this format personally, but having the ability to do MP3 and AAC would be nice. Yet the latest reincarnation of ATRAC, ATRAC-S is quite good. Incidently, with 'high quality' level, you'll get about 8 hours on a new 1GB media.
What Sony really needs is to divorse the MD format from ATRAC. The first step is made: MD layout is no longer tied up to specific format, but uses FAT, general data format. So we can store some general data on MD. Just imagine if Sony adds some other decoders. This will literally blow away most of the players. Yet even with only ATRAC decoder available, I still expect revitilized interest in this format. Seems like Sony is on a right track. Not just higher density MD, but moving to 'general purposes media' with excellent characteristics.
My personal recollection - when microcomputer were still evolving. There was a big article, forgot which publication, talked about intel 286 and forthcoming 386. The author says something like this: 386 is certainly overkill. Why do we ever need that much of computing power in microprocessor?
I guess it was sometime in mid to late 80s. Prevailing mentality of that time was that 'There is a big iron, mainframe, and then there are some minis like DEC or Prime, and then there are those intel-based desktops suitable for some word processing and other lightweight tasks.
Little did the author know that microprocessor would become the heart of the computers practically of any range - from micros to 'big iron' and supercomputers.
Regarding James Turner, PLEASE check the LinuxToday thread "Is Linux ready for Desktop".
In this thread they discuss two articles, one by aforementioned James Turner. Because James Turner's laptop's wireless adapter doesn't work with Linux, he came to the conclusion that "Linux is Not Ready for Desktop". When he was suggested that his conclusion is completely illogical, and non-sensical, he started jumping around, and suggested his opponents "To Grow Up". Apparently this article about Linux community is sort of continuation of this discussion.
Seems like this is James Turner who'll never grow up.