agreed. i just ordered a shakira album a few days ago which i have since heard may not be a CD at all. if it doesn't rip or play in my computer and dvd player, it goes back for a full refund!
finding workarounds is stupid until the monopolies stop releasing anything else; it only promotes buying and accepting the invalid discs "protected" as such.
as soon as you combine your palm pilot and cell phone in one you'll be lucky if you are able / allowed to jot notes down on your palm while on the cell phone.
get a handsfree headset and really hope that the all-in-one designers weren't morons and don't lock it in phone mode while you're talking.
CDATA sections allow it. however you'll need to break your binary data up into several cdata sections that don't contain the CDATA ending character sequence.
xml is meant for structured data where you don't give a damn about speed. sending large chunks of binary data? use a real, binary safe length delimited encoding.
thanks, that's good to know. i'm looking forward to kde 3.0's release. I will play with Xinerama mode again once it is out.
Though still not sure Xinerama can do what i want. I have a 1600x1200 crt with a 1024x768 lcd beside it. I don't want stupid "scroll the viewing window at the edge of the screen" behavior on the lcd.
cost alone could kill it until a decent multicast infrastructure doesn't exist throughout the backbone and to your door via your ISPs connection.
you can't seriously expect them to fund paying for a seperate chunk of bandwidth for each individual user who's receiving exactly the same data being sent at the same time as all of the rest of the listeners identical data across zillions of the same router hops?
hmm, with multicast do they pay less royalties because less copies of the data are being made in the interim?;)
windows 98, me, 2000 and XP all have great multiple monitor support when using more than one video card or using a video card with multi-head outputs (ATI and Matrox make good ones).
XFree86's multihead support works well, but it not easy to setup and not quite as nice to use. And X doesn't support multi-head in the nice friendly same screen (ie: windows can be dragged between screens) format without applications popping up thinking that its one large display so that the show up across multiple heads or with dialog boxed centered on the break in your monitors.
won't work with wireless for security. someone who wants on the network can just take over someone elses MAC address that they sniffed. they can even be polite and wait until the original user goes offline before using it to be less likely that the original user would detect anything.
we do not know enough about the genetic code to determine what is and isn't a weakness in the long term gene pool. this is very dangerous for the species. or at least any of the species rich enough to pay for such procedures... hmm.. this problem may correct itself.
any idea of the -actual- time frame for these events in 1998? or am i lazy and does/. have a history with graphs of number of users and a hardware used to run it chart somewhere that i don't see.
just trying to figure out what it was running on when i was first pointed to it ages ago.
I've got a 533mhz 164SX that i got on ebay 2-3 years ago here ($250 for the board with cpu at the time). It works great and is a decent speed. (the noname 21064 that it replaced was painfully slow)
Another benefit of using anything other than x86 CPUs is that they are much less likely to be broken into as script kiddie exploits are more common for the lousy popular architecture. Now that there are decent open source web browsers available you can even use it as a desktop machine.
since when is a 700Mhz P3 not a powerful system? last i checked it was still running just as fast as that 700Mhz P3 that you were drooling over two years ago.
they have no right to that source of money. just because it worked in the past does not mean the government should guarantee it for them in the future. if that were the case the government would be subsidizing all of the now failed dot-coms that depended on once lucrative internet advertising revenue.
let the corporations earn their living, not have it fed to them on a plate.
since they're based in san jose the turn around between dropping a viewed movie in the mail and receiving another one from my queue is 2-3 days. the only video store near me is a blocksucker and both good video stores on the peninsula are out of the way from my commute.
if i need a movie immediately i still go to a video store; all others come from netflix.
anyone who says "but this will bring about the demise of the local video store" obviously hasn't noticed that the reason local stores still exist at all is porn.
too slow? tell that to our 50,000 line program. Think again, only 1% of your code needs speed and that's easy to optimize by making a small C/C++ library only when a profiler determines it is necessary.
yes, the airport is still the nicest cheap 802.11b access point. it uses real 802.11b cards with the Lucent chipset (orinoco/wavelan) rather than the cheapo "Prism" chipset. That way you can use WEP encryption without any performance hit. [yes, wep is useful; it keeps the 95% of people who don't know how to run airsnort off of your network]
airports are also some sort of amd 486 cpu with 8 or 16 megs of ram i believe. porting bsd or linux to them would be great.
it thankfully sounds like the new language is leaning more towards already existing nice clean structured ones (python) instead of the mess it is now. exceptions and good blocks are nice, though they should really go the whole hog and add the whitespace requirement between block starting {}s and not between hash delimiting {}s.
i shudder to think that i once wrote complex cgi scripts in perl 4...
i recently signed up with them and am only getting 768/128 on my line though they advertised 1.5/256 here. any idea how far you are from the CO?
I was previously a speakeasy.net customer (highly recommended!) and will likely go back if directvdsl doesn't shape up by the time my one (albeit cheap) year with them is over.
openbsd is only secure if you don't install any third party software. after that, its not much better than any other bsd or linux flavor for server (non multi-user shell account) systems.
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agreed. i just ordered a shakira album a few days ago which i have since heard may not be a CD at all. if it doesn't rip or play in my computer and dvd player, it goes back for a full refund!
finding workarounds is stupid until the monopolies stop releasing anything else; it only promotes buying and accepting the invalid discs "protected" as such.
people didn't but the crap then, they won't now.
you can pick up a stand alone access point for less than $200 that will be much more reliable than a PC.
as soon as you combine your palm pilot and cell phone in one you'll be lucky if you are able / allowed to jot notes down on your palm while on the cell phone.
get a handsfree headset and really hope that the all-in-one designers weren't morons and don't lock it in phone mode while you're talking.
*sigh* yes again, then i misinterpreted the xml spec. that means xml is absolutely useless for including large chunks of binary data.
CDATA sections allow it. however you'll need to break your binary data up into several cdata sections that don't contain the CDATA ending character sequence.
xml is meant for structured data where you don't give a damn about speed. sending large chunks of binary data? use a real, binary safe length delimited encoding.
thanks, that's good to know. i'm looking forward to kde 3.0's release. I will play with Xinerama mode again once it is out.
Though still not sure Xinerama can do what i want. I have a 1600x1200 crt with a 1024x768 lcd beside it. I don't want stupid "scroll the viewing window at the edge of the screen" behavior on the lcd.
cost alone could kill it until a decent multicast infrastructure doesn't exist throughout the backbone and to your door via your ISPs connection.
;)
you can't seriously expect them to fund paying for a seperate chunk of bandwidth for each individual user who's receiving exactly the same data being sent at the same time as all of the rest of the listeners identical data across zillions of the same router hops?
hmm, with multicast do they pay less royalties because less copies of the data are being made in the interim?
windows 98, me, 2000 and XP all have great multiple monitor support when using more than one video card or using a video card with multi-head outputs (ATI and Matrox make good ones).
XFree86's multihead support works well, but it not easy to setup and not quite as nice to use. And X doesn't support multi-head in the nice friendly same screen (ie: windows can be dragged between screens) format without applications popping up thinking that its one large display so that the show up across multiple heads or with dialog boxed centered on the break in your monitors.
won't work with wireless for security. someone who wants on the network can just take over someone elses MAC address that they sniffed. they can even be polite and wait until the original user goes offline before using it to be less likely that the original user would detect anything.
taking after other big vegetable/fruit processing/processor companies.
we do not know enough about the genetic code to determine what is and isn't a weakness in the long term gene pool. this is very dangerous for the species. or at least any of the species rich enough to pay for such procedures... hmm.. this problem may correct itself.
according to this news article they are just sent elsewhere to be dumped and pollute.
any idea of the -actual- time frame for these events in 1998? or am i lazy and does /. have a history with graphs of number of users and a hardware used to run it chart somewhere that i don't see.
just trying to figure out what it was running on when i was first pointed to it ages ago.
I've got a 533mhz 164SX that i got on ebay 2-3 years ago here ($250 for the board with cpu at the time). It works great and is a decent speed. (the noname 21064 that it replaced was painfully slow)
Another benefit of using anything other than x86 CPUs is that they are much less likely to be broken into as script kiddie exploits are more common for the lousy popular architecture. Now that there are decent open source web browsers available you can even use it as a desktop machine.
since when is a 700Mhz P3 not a powerful system? last i checked it was still running just as fast as that 700Mhz P3 that you were drooling over two years ago.
they have no right to that source of money. just because it worked in the past does not mean the government should guarantee it for them in the future. if that were the case the government would be subsidizing all of the now failed dot-coms that depended on once lucrative internet advertising revenue.
let the corporations earn their living, not have it fed to them on a plate.
since they're based in san jose the turn around between dropping a viewed movie in the mail and receiving another one from my queue is 2-3 days. the only video store near me is a blocksucker and both good video stores on the peninsula are out of the way from my commute.
if i need a movie immediately i still go to a video store; all others come from netflix.
anyone who says "but this will bring about the demise of the local video store" obviously hasn't noticed that the reason local stores still exist at all is porn.
tetris for sure.
even better is bust-a-move 2 & 4 [its name for the PS1] (also known as puzzle bobble or bubble bobble in the arcade standup versions)
too slow? tell that to our 50,000 line program. Think again, only 1% of your code needs speed and that's easy to optimize by making a small C/C++ library only when a profiler determines it is necessary.
yes, the airport is still the nicest cheap 802.11b access point. it uses real 802.11b cards with the Lucent chipset (orinoco/wavelan) rather than the cheapo "Prism" chipset. That way you can use WEP encryption without any performance hit. [yes, wep is useful; it keeps the 95% of people who don't know how to run airsnort off of your network]
airports are also some sort of amd 486 cpu with 8 or 16 megs of ram i believe. porting bsd or linux to them would be great.
it thankfully sounds like the new language is leaning more towards already existing nice clean structured ones (python) instead of the mess it is now. exceptions and good blocks are nice, though they should really go the whole hog and add the whitespace requirement between block starting {}s and not between hash delimiting {}s.
i shudder to think that i once wrote complex cgi scripts in perl 4...
i recently signed up with them and am only getting 768/128 on my line though they advertised 1.5/256 here. any idea how far you are from the CO?
I was previously a speakeasy.net customer (highly recommended!) and will likely go back if directvdsl doesn't shape up by the time my one (albeit cheap) year with them is over.
openbsd is only secure if you don't install any third party software. after that, its not much better than any other bsd or linux flavor for server (non multi-user shell account) systems.
i don't think so...