the stupid broken emusic download manager is no longer required. creating that beast is the worst thing they ever did; they're not a desktop software company and it shows.
same here. i haven't yet unsubscribed as i still had stuff i wanted to download but if their new changes don't pan out for the better i will.
so they want a steady subscription revenue. fine. they should at least have a more expensive no-subscription option that doesn't involve subscribing, downloading 40 tracks, and leaving all in one day.
yes the emusic download manager sucks donkey balls. it almost made be drop my subscription when they introduced that thing. fortunately they *removed* the requirement that you use it a few months ago. you can now download tracks directly again.
bandwidth is increasing much faster than display resolution and bit depth. while the first thought is "on no, thats bad we should send vectors" think again... it makes for an -extreemly- simple display server that doesn't need to keep being upgraded and updated for new 2d, 3d, etc vector tricks and complex negotiations with clients to see what it can/can't do.
instead it pushes rendering to the client (shared libs, etc) and display to the server. no more complexities inbetween.
so you're suggesting the correct futuristic design shouldn't be used because some particular bits of hardware are difficult to support to their theoretical best?
sheesh. thats giving up and handing control to the hardware manufacturers right there.
rechargables aren't popular because the "big battery" companies (duracell and energizer) will *never* advertise them. why tell consumers to buy something once that they can reuse over and over again for 5-10 years when you could tell them to buy something cheaper that they'll have to keep coming back and buying more of every couple months?
this is the same reason the name brand rechargables are worthless low-power shit. they *want* rechargable batteries to seem bad. i -always- see people at the rechargable rack in the store pick and buy the name brands first, despite the power output being advertised. consumers are clueless. hell, they allowed bush to steal an election and fuck up the world; you think they'll bother to learn about batteries?
there was a magazine article with a project to build one of these in the late 1980s or very early 1990s. It was in something like Popular Electronics or one of the similar hobbyist project magazines of the time.
We're replacing our a**-slow "Platform LSF" commercial cpu farm management software with GridWare / Sun Grid Engine. Its great! Grid Engine performs operations on jobs in an instant just as if you were running them locally (*unlike LSF which is too slow at common tasks like job submission or job killing to be useful*). its also free, with support from sun available if you feel like wasting money.
various satellite and cable bandwidth and content providers have been looking longingly at using p2p to distribute and store their content on end users boxes to save on mid-network and server end bandwidth costs. any PVR or generic set top box with an integrated hard drive is set to make it possible.
the -problem- is that consumer uplinks are slow and often limited and hopefully even firewalled. so unless its a combined cable+internet company with an integrated box designed to use uplink bandwidth on their own network from leased customer boxes without the customer even knowing its going on it isn't too practical.
good idea. but do the math on where the bandwidth comes from. it won't save 'em a whole lot without ISP cooperation or integration.
DirecTV sold their stake in the company but they are not dumping the boxes. The new HDTV tivos have directv tuners in them as well as analog. DirecTV has never had an exclusive deal so they may well start offering another el-cheapo DVR but that doesn't mean tivo is going away.
i used it a month or so ago for about 10,000 emails and it consistently did much worse than spamassassin; both on the spams that got thru and the false positives. sorry dspam. good concept. try harder. and stop making false high percentage claims. thats totally invalid and smells of marketdroids.
do you actually like commercials on your dvds? what good is an integrated burner if it won't help edit out what you don't need to waste time skipping in the future.
tivo could even do a good job of this if they wanted to. if a show has been viewed already, record what the user skipped and use that as the basis for the first round of commercial editing.
1.3.x is great. 99.999% of us don't need 2.x. and of the remaining 0.001% that think they do at least half of them would be better off buying more than one computer to serve their website.
putting a rom of any sort on a device costs more than not having it at all. the device likely already has some ram for its microcontroller regardless, or it can use dma (depends on the nature of the device).
while we may all be fine and happy with drivers that work using vendor supplied binary-only bits of firmware inside an otherwise open driver, those vendors are not guaranteed to continue supplying that firmware or keep it free forever (as if buying their hardware isn't enough!).
keeping that out of the kernel and as something to be loaded by hotplug is the best that can be done for devices that the vendor won't (and often can't) provide full source for.
the messier issue is where do you draw the line at what is allowed and what is not? is a sequence of 20-odd magic values written to proprietary chipset registers any different than 800 bytes stored in a string and sent to the device on startup? both are equally obfuscated but only one is likely "code" in any sense due to its size.
less and less devices will bother to have any rom and firmware on them in the future as a flash rom takes space and costs money and is not needed when the OS can load it for you. tackle this now!
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the stupid broken emusic download manager is no longer required. creating that beast is the worst thing they ever did; they're not a desktop software company and it shows.
same here. i haven't yet unsubscribed as i still had stuff i wanted to download but if their new changes don't pan out for the better i will.
so they want a steady subscription revenue. fine. they should at least have a more expensive no-subscription option that doesn't involve subscribing, downloading 40 tracks, and leaving all in one day.
yes the emusic download manager sucks donkey balls. it almost made be drop my subscription when they introduced that thing. fortunately they *removed* the requirement that you use it a few months ago. you can now download tracks directly again.
bandwidth is increasing much faster than display resolution and bit depth. while the first thought is "on no, thats bad we should send vectors" think again... it makes for an -extreemly- simple display server that doesn't need to keep being upgraded and updated for new 2d, 3d, etc vector tricks and complex negotiations with clients to see what it can/can't do.
instead it pushes rendering to the client (shared libs, etc) and display to the server. no more complexities inbetween.
vnc works well. this is similar but better.
so you're suggesting the correct futuristic design shouldn't be used because some particular bits of hardware are difficult to support to their theoretical best?
sheesh. thats giving up and handing control to the hardware manufacturers right there.
design it right. good drivers will happen.
i have never been able to find a cheap 21264 (ev6) based system. i'm still stuck with my wonderful but dated 666mhz 164lx.
if you pay for it then you have 100% freedom to turn it off at any time for any reason. that goes for bandwidth or wireless leashes, doesn't matter.
rechargables aren't popular because the "big battery" companies (duracell and energizer) will *never* advertise them. why tell consumers to buy something once that they can reuse over and over again for 5-10 years when you could tell them to buy something cheaper that they'll have to keep coming back and buying more of every couple months?
this is the same reason the name brand rechargables are worthless low-power shit. they *want* rechargable batteries to seem bad. i -always- see people at the rechargable rack in the store pick and buy the name brands first, despite the power output being advertised. consumers are clueless. hell, they allowed bush to steal an election and fuck up the world; you think they'll bother to learn about batteries?
a simple analog circuit to switch from high to low (trickle) charging current is all thats needed.
any charger that uses a timer is silly.
fyi, frys carries 2300mAh batteries now.
the wrt54gs does not have a beefy enough CPU to sustain AES at full 802.11g speeds (200mhz mipsel just doesn't cut it).
there was a magazine article with a project to build one of these in the late 1980s or very early 1990s. It was in something like Popular Electronics or one of the similar hobbyist project magazines of the time.
*cough* sourceexchange *cough*
oh yeah, it died a miserable death.
We're replacing our a**-slow "Platform LSF" commercial cpu farm management software with GridWare / Sun Grid Engine. Its great! Grid Engine performs operations on jobs in an instant just as if you were running them locally (*unlike LSF which is too slow at common tasks like job submission or job killing to be useful*). its also free, with support from sun available if you feel like wasting money.
yes he is on crack. notice his goth url. he likes dark and dreary!
various satellite and cable bandwidth and content providers have been looking longingly at using p2p to distribute and store their content on end users boxes to save on mid-network and server end bandwidth costs. any PVR or generic set top box with an integrated hard drive is set to make it possible.
the -problem- is that consumer uplinks are slow and often limited and hopefully even firewalled. so unless its a combined cable+internet company with an integrated box designed to use uplink bandwidth on their own network from leased customer boxes without the customer even knowing its going on it isn't too practical.
good idea. but do the math on where the bandwidth comes from. it won't save 'em a whole lot without ISP cooperation or integration.
DirecTV sold their stake in the company but they are not dumping the boxes. The new HDTV tivos have directv tuners in them as well as analog. DirecTV has never had an exclusive deal so they may well start offering another el-cheapo DVR but that doesn't mean tivo is going away.
i used it a month or so ago for about 10,000 emails and it consistently did much worse than spamassassin; both on the spams that got thru and the false positives. sorry dspam. good concept. try harder. and stop making false high percentage claims. thats totally invalid and smells of marketdroids.
do you actually like commercials on your dvds? what good is an integrated burner if it won't help edit out what you don't need to waste time skipping in the future.
tivo could even do a good job of this if they wanted to. if a show has been viewed already, record what the user skipped and use that as the basis for the first round of commercial editing.
it is *much* easier to launch a ship directly to mars than to waste fuel and acceleration being trapped by the moon first.
monkeys eventually write both vi and emacs while working on shakespeare
1.3.x is great. 99.999% of us don't need 2.x. and of the remaining 0.001% that think they do at least half of them would be better off buying more than one computer to serve their website.
putting a rom of any sort on a device costs more than not having it at all. the device likely already has some ram for its microcontroller regardless, or it can use dma (depends on the nature of the device).
while we may all be fine and happy with drivers that work using vendor supplied binary-only bits of firmware inside an otherwise open driver, those vendors are not guaranteed to continue supplying that firmware or keep it free forever (as if buying their hardware isn't enough!).
keeping that out of the kernel and as something to be loaded by hotplug is the best that can be done for devices that the vendor won't (and often can't) provide full source for.
the messier issue is where do you draw the line at what is allowed and what is not? is a sequence of 20-odd magic values written to proprietary chipset registers any different than 800 bytes stored in a string and sent to the device on startup? both are equally obfuscated but only one is likely "code" in any sense due to its size.
less and less devices will bother to have any rom and firmware on them in the future as a flash rom takes space and costs money and is not needed when the OS can load it for you. tackle this now!
yay
and you'll find that gmail's is quite good.