Is that you? The one I went to school with? Sorry to say, dear, but you're looking like shit. Get out. See the sun. Exercise a bit. You used to be cute!
(not trolling this time, she's an ol' wustl bud of mine. heh heh)
Ogg/Vorbis isn't encumbered by patents. This means that anyone can implement a codec without fear of being sued.
Apparently it is technologically superior to mp3, giving better compression ratios primarily through a wicked variable bitrate encoding algorithm (i.e. the stuff that needs less info to sound good uses less info).
That said, ogg is dead. Name one portable music player that supports ogg. Name one that will. With all the DRM shit happening anyone who starts to sell a player that supports ogg will be drawn and quartered by the music industry.
I too use iTunes, and it works great for me. My only problem is that I have a 10 gig HD in my iBook. Is it possible to upgrade the iBook hard drive?
Here I sit in my cube. My employers were late on payroll for the entire month of June (June 15 and June 28 checks came on July 5). They are now late on the July 15 check. Two consecutive "this company is in the shitter" stories on Slashdot. Me with about fourteen resumes out in the wild and not a single reply. Shit. At least I live in a pretty place.
I just traded in my 300Mhz G3 blue and white tower with 640mb ram for a 500Mhz iBook with 384mb ram. I am very happy with the trade. I kept my 17" studio display, my keytronic USB keyboard, and my trackball. The iBook is just as responsive as my desktop. I can't tell the difference with all the peripherals attached. I'm running OS X on it, and don't feel that it is unusable, although at times it can be a bit slow. I think that the applications that come with the iBook are great. The developer tools are awesome and Cocoa is a joy to program in. If you don't want to spend too much, buy yourself an iBook. However, wait until the latest Apple show is over. Prices on their older models tend to drop when they release the new models.
But IDC analyst Roger Kay was unenthusiastic about the Jaguar release, contending that Apple's OS updates come too frequently. The company launched Mac OS X 10.0 in March 2001, followed by version 10.1 in September.
"OS X 10.1 didn't get its full shot at maturity before the release of the new system," Kay said. "From a tactical point of view, they're truncating one revenue stream to bring on another one. They didn't even fully extract the revenue from the first product."
Well holy fuck, Roger. Apple actually gives a shit about releasing performance enhancing and bug fix updates without regard to squeezing their consumers for every last penny. Maybe your tiny analyst brain doens't recognize that treating customers with class might help to make them loyal to the Apple product line.
You are also probably the same kind of shithead who wonders why Apple doesn't charge hundreds of dollars for their exceptional developer tools.
Your manager installs filtering software. You may think that he is an evil asshole who want to make a feeble attempt to censor and spy on you. Well, chances are you're wrong.
Companies have all sorts of liability that they have to worry about. Management installs filtering software to cover their asses in sexual harassment situations, or in this case, intellectual property rights.
That way when the RIAA comes banging on the doors of your company because the employees are downloading mp3s, they can innocently point to the filtering software then bring down the hammer of god on the people who circumvented the filtering software.
Really, it's nothing personal and has very little to do with you.
Gentoo/PPC has one huge problem. It shares the same portage tree as the I86 version. Packages are tested for I86, and they break the PPC distribution. I wasted a weekend trying to install Gentoo PPC on my iBook, and I couldn't emerge system because the build for ncurses was broken.
* So do we support the MPAA today, or are we against them?
* The Matrix Reloaded is going to be much cooler than this one.
* How dare they call it The Two Towers after 9-11.
Remember kids, you heard it here first.
You're a hammer, and everything is a nail
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Genetic algorithms? Branch out, man.
Stuff like this has been around forever. Try looking up keywords like "optimization," "linear programming," "constrained optimization," and "operations research."
There are tons of packages out there to help you out. Good luck.
An endless roster of security holes allows cyber-thieves to fill up their buffers with credit-card numbers and corporate secrets. It's easier to vandalize a Web site than to program a remote control.
Just makes you want to stay in bed in the morning, huh? What a big, bad, nasty world.
Computer security is enough of a worry that the software colossus Microsoft views it as a threat to its continued success: thus the apocalyptic Bill Gates memo in January calling for a "Trustworthy Computing" jihad.
Hello, FBI? I would like to report some crazy dude with funny lookin' glasses screaming and moaning about a Jihad. Yeah, he keeps muttering stuff about world domination, and how everyone is out to get him. Yes, his name is b-i-l-l. ..
What Gates did not specifically mention was Microsoft's hyperambitious long-range plan to literally change the architecture of PCs in order to address the concerns of security
As opposed to hyperactive, which is how his mother describes him.
"This isn't just about solving problems, but expanding new realms of possibilities in the way people live and work with computers," says product manager Mario Juarez.
Someone let a typo through. The word is 'limiting,' not 'expanding.'
"We have to ship 100 million of these before it really makes a difference," says Microsoft vice president Will Poole.
Linux, BSD, and OS X anyone? Now, more than ever!
Tells you who you're dealing with--and what they're doing. Palladium is all about deciding what's trustworthy.
Trustworthy: RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft, FBI, Intel. Untrustworthy: Your Mom, anything with the letters GPL in it, your cat Skittles, you. ..
The system uses high-level encryption to "seal" data so that snoops and thieves are thwarted.
Snoop and thief meaning the end user.
Palladium won't run unauthorized programs, so viruses can't trash protected parts of your system.
Like that pesky GPL virus. That one gives me the shivers.
Eventually, commercial pitches for recycled printer cartridges and barnyard porn can be stopped before they hit your inbox--while unsolicited mail that you might want to see can arrive if it has credentials that meet your standards.
Like reminders to renew your MS software subscription.
Microsofties have nicknamed these services "My Man."
In my neighborhood we call him "The Man." Damn fool is always keepin' us down.
In all cases, it would be the user, not Microsoft, who sets these policies.
Of course, your system would come with preset Microsoft friendly defaults. And just to be sure that everything is working correctly, upgrades will reset those defaults.
Intel originally turned down the idea before eventually embracing it.
See, I told you that truck loads of money can make a difference in the world.
By then the special security chips will be rolling out of the fabs, and the computer makers--salivating at an opportunity to sell more boxes--will have motherboards to accommodate them.
Of course, the initial developments will cause a temporary rise in costs. Over the long term costs will drop. Unless they don't.
Don't mind those stuffy looking men colluding behind the curtain.
"We don't blink at the thought of putting Palladium on your Palm... on the telephone, on your wristwatch," says software architect Brian Willman.
We also don't blink at anticompetitive licensing agreements.
but less tolerant nations might insist on a "back door" that would allow it to wiretap and search people's data.
I just love getting screwed through my "back door."
"I firmly believe we will be shipping with bugs," says Paul England.
After all, they have a reputation to uphold.
When Microsoft manages to get Palladium in our computers, the effects could indeed be profound.
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Dianetics.
chrisd is posting it, and he is featured in one of the "funny" switch ads. how cute.
Is that you? The one I went to school with? Sorry to say, dear, but you're looking like shit. Get out. See the sun. Exercise a bit. You used to be cute!
(not trolling this time, she's an ol' wustl bud of mine. heh heh)
Not quite there. How is the selection made? I can take the set {0 1 2 3 4 5} and select numbers serially. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 0, 1, 2...
For a large enough series (or a small enough series divisible by 6) each item has an equal probability of being selected.
bzzzt! Try again.
How can you generate a number "without definite aim, direction, rule, or method?"
bzzt! Try again!
define random.
Yeah, I didn't think so...
is the bible.
We're all sinners.
Recently there was a virus that caused WebTV consoles to dial 911. A possible place to apply that clause?
they are posed in such a way that they often make you giggle.
Only if you're a poofta.
The idea is this:
Ogg/Vorbis isn't encumbered by patents. This means that anyone can implement a codec without fear of being sued.
Apparently it is technologically superior to mp3, giving better compression ratios primarily through a wicked variable bitrate encoding algorithm (i.e. the stuff that needs less info to sound good uses less info).
That said, ogg is dead. Name one portable music player that supports ogg. Name one that will. With all the DRM shit happening anyone who starts to sell a player that supports ogg will be drawn and quartered by the music industry.
I too use iTunes, and it works great for me. My only problem is that I have a 10 gig HD in my iBook. Is it possible to upgrade the iBook hard drive?
Yes, but I live in the middle of nowhere. The closest thing to me that resembles a city is Laramie, Wymoing. Heh.
I just keep telling myself, now is not the time to panic.
Here I sit in my cube. My employers were late on payroll for the entire month of June (June 15 and June 28 checks came on July 5). They are now late on the July 15 check. Two consecutive "this company is in the shitter" stories on Slashdot. Me with about fourteen resumes out in the wild and not a single reply. Shit. At least I live in a pretty place.
Book 10?! Won't somebody but a bullet through the head of that tired old horse?
I just traded in my 300Mhz G3 blue and white tower with 640mb ram for a 500Mhz iBook with 384mb ram. I am very happy with the trade. I kept my 17" studio display, my keytronic USB keyboard, and my trackball. The iBook is just as responsive as my desktop. I can't tell the difference with all the peripherals attached. I'm running OS X on it, and don't feel that it is unusable, although at times it can be a bit slow. I think that the applications that come with the iBook are great. The developer tools are awesome and Cocoa is a joy to program in. If you don't want to spend too much, buy yourself an iBook. However, wait until the latest Apple show is over. Prices on their older models tend to drop when they release the new models.
But IDC analyst Roger Kay was unenthusiastic about the Jaguar release, contending that Apple's OS updates come too frequently. The company launched Mac OS X 10.0 in March 2001, followed by version 10.1 in September.
"OS X 10.1 didn't get its full shot at maturity before the release of the new system," Kay said. "From a tactical point of view, they're truncating one revenue stream to bring on another one. They didn't even fully extract the revenue from the first product."
Well holy fuck, Roger. Apple actually gives a shit about releasing performance enhancing and bug fix updates without regard to squeezing their consumers for every last penny. Maybe your tiny analyst brain doens't recognize that treating customers with class might help to make them loyal to the Apple product line.
You are also probably the same kind of shithead who wonders why Apple doesn't charge hundreds of dollars for their exceptional developer tools.
As a guy with a Masters in Mathematics, I'm sorry to say that you're full of shit.
Graduate school. Take these classes at a community college:
1) Algebra
2) Trigonometry
3) Calculus
4) Differential Equations
5) Linear Algebra
6) Prob/Stat
7) Abstract Algebra
8) Numerical Methods/Analysis
Then send your applications for grad school off. If you pass those seven classes you will be a shoe in.
Can't you read?
.. shut up and leave me alone!
No, I can't! So you. . you.
Oh, you weren't talking to me. nevermind
Yeah, last time I looked under the couch cushions I found about $50 grand.
What I really wanted was a peanut. But then I remembered that $50 grand could buy lots of peanuts. (thanks to H. Simpson)
Your manager installs filtering software. You may think that he is an evil asshole who want to make a feeble attempt to censor and spy on you. Well, chances are you're wrong.
Companies have all sorts of liability that they have to worry about. Management installs filtering software to cover their asses in sexual harassment situations, or in this case, intellectual property rights.
That way when the RIAA comes banging on the doors of your company because the employees are downloading mp3s, they can innocently point to the filtering software then bring down the hammer of god on the people who circumvented the filtering software.
Really, it's nothing personal and has very little to do with you.
* Rip CDs to a format other than mp3
* support for most scanners out of the box
* virtual terminals (not gui terminal windows)
Those are three important things to me
Gentoo/PPC has one huge problem. It shares the same portage tree as the I86 version. Packages are tested for I86, and they break the PPC distribution. I wasted a weekend trying to install Gentoo PPC on my iBook, and I couldn't emerge system because the build for ncurses was broken.
* This movie is going to rock. I can't wait!
* Stupid apple doesn't port Quicktime to linux.
* So do we support the MPAA today, or are we against them?
* The Matrix Reloaded is going to be much cooler than this one.
* How dare they call it The Two Towers after 9-11.
Remember kids, you heard it here first.
Genetic algorithms? Branch out, man.
Stuff like this has been around forever. Try looking up keywords like "optimization," "linear programming," "constrained optimization," and "operations research."
There are tons of packages out there to help you out. Good luck.
An endless roster of security holes allows cyber-thieves to fill up their buffers with credit-card numbers and corporate secrets. It's easier to vandalize a Web site than to program a remote control.
.
.
Just makes you want to stay in bed in the morning, huh? What a big, bad, nasty world.
Computer security is enough of a worry that the software colossus Microsoft views it as a threat to its continued success: thus the apocalyptic Bill Gates memo in January calling for a "Trustworthy Computing" jihad.
Hello, FBI? I would like to report some crazy dude with funny lookin' glasses screaming and moaning about a Jihad. Yeah, he keeps muttering stuff about world domination, and how everyone is out to get him. Yes, his name is b-i-l-l. .
What Gates did not specifically mention was Microsoft's hyperambitious long-range plan to literally change the architecture of PCs in order to address the concerns of security
As opposed to hyperactive, which is how his mother describes him.
"This isn't just about solving problems, but expanding new realms of possibilities in the way people live and work with computers," says product manager Mario Juarez.
Someone let a typo through. The word is 'limiting,' not 'expanding.'
"We have to ship 100 million of these before it really makes a difference," says Microsoft vice president Will Poole.
Linux, BSD, and OS X anyone? Now, more than ever!
Tells you who you're dealing with--and what they're doing. Palladium is all about deciding what's trustworthy.
Trustworthy: RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft, FBI, Intel.
Untrustworthy: Your Mom, anything with the letters GPL in it, your cat Skittles, you. .
The system uses high-level encryption to "seal" data so that snoops and thieves are thwarted.
Snoop and thief meaning the end user.
Palladium won't run unauthorized programs, so viruses can't trash protected parts of your system.
Like that pesky GPL virus. That one gives me the shivers.
Eventually, commercial pitches for recycled printer cartridges and barnyard porn can be stopped before they hit your inbox--while unsolicited mail that you might want to see can arrive if it has credentials that meet your standards.
Like reminders to renew your MS software subscription.
Microsofties have nicknamed these services "My Man."
In my neighborhood we call him "The Man." Damn fool is always keepin' us down.
In all cases, it would be the user, not Microsoft, who sets these policies.
Of course, your system would come with preset Microsoft friendly defaults. And just to be sure that everything is working correctly, upgrades will reset those defaults.
Intel originally turned down the idea before eventually embracing it.
See, I told you that truck loads of money can make a difference in the world.
By then the special security chips will be rolling out of the fabs, and the computer makers--salivating at an opportunity to sell more boxes--will have motherboards to accommodate them.
Of course, the initial developments will cause a temporary rise in costs. Over the long term costs will drop. Unless they don't.
Don't mind those stuffy looking men colluding behind the curtain.
"We don't blink at the thought of putting Palladium on your Palm... on the telephone, on your wristwatch," says software architect Brian Willman.
We also don't blink at anticompetitive licensing agreements.
but less tolerant nations might insist on a "back door" that would allow it to wiretap and search people's data.
I just love getting screwed through my "back door."
"I firmly believe we will be shipping with bugs," says Paul England.
After all, they have a reputation to uphold.
When Microsoft manages to get Palladium in our computers, the effects could indeed be profound.
Yeah, about as profound as a game of Pong.