How is that hypocritical? If I were saying Solaris was the greatest thing in the world, that might be hypocritical. Saying it sucks ass is completely consistant with the facts implied by my email address and whatnot, mainly that I support Microsoft products.
In the home user market at least. You can't really compare it with Slowaris because they are mostly in the high end Unix market. The only market they really share is the hard core psychotic bastard market of people who would actually use Unix at home. And I don't think much effort has been made to gather data on them, because they usually ignore attempts to collect that kind of information, or lie.
2) Fuck other people. They can use their bandwidth to hammer with 30 second retrys.
I never felt discriminated against. If your connection moves data slower it's going to take longer. The server doesn't mind waiting, and if I did I would get a faster connection. What's the problem?
This is the trouble with Ogg Vorbis. It isn't supported by these things. If they had rewriteable firmware, it would be possible to hack support into them, but as far as I know, not many of them do this.
I would rather use my CD player anyway. A real CD sounds better anyway. It is also a simple matter to make an expendable copy of a CD so the original isn't in danger of theft or damage.
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Actually there was a similar phrase in Linus's book.
Because I had been overly optimistic in the naming of version 0.95, I was caught in a bind. Over the course of the two years it took to get version 1.0 out the door, we were forced to do some crazy things with numbers. There waren't many numbers between 95 and 100, but we continually released new versions based on bug fixes or added functions. By the time we got to version 0.99, we had to start adding numbers to indicate patch levels, and then we relied on the alphabet. At one point we had version 0.99, patch level 15A. Then version 0.99, patch level 15B, and so on. We made it all the way to patch level 15Z. Patch level 16 became version 1.0, the point where it was usable. This was released in March 1994 with great fanfare at the University of Helsinki Computer Sciences Department auditorium.
I never saw anything wrong with version X.YYY, IE: version 0.100, 0.101, 2.4.634, etc...
It looks more like 10% to me (eyeballing the first graph). What bothers me is that Microsoft went up about the same amount.
By itself, it doesn't mean anything more than what it claims to be. Taking it along with other information such as this.Net bullshit, it is a bad sign.
Open Source will never go away. When(if) the Internet becomes controlled and commercialized, we will ignore and avoid it or go someplace else. It won't be the end of the world.
Microsoft doesn't give two craps about Sony as far as Sony could affect their bottom line. In the end they can make more money selling things to people so that the people can rip Sony off than Sony could give them not to.
Microsoft can make lots of money selling Sony technology to force people to buy their products in such a way that makes more money for Sony (such as 30 day licences). Microsoft gets payed by Sony and everyone who buys Windows XP or whatever so they can buy new releases from Sony, and Sony makes much more money by selling the music repeatedly to the same people who still want it in their playlist after their time is up. They care about each other, but only to the extent that it keeps their money coming in.
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If you had submitted this to segfault, people would say "hey, that guy is creative and appealing sexually." Instead, you are going to get shitted on by moderators.
Wouldn't it be possible to use IP tunnelling to get around their filters? Currently people are running an IPV6 network over the internet using a similar mechanism iirc. Using Freenet, we could set up a way to keep a list of IP addresses to use so that they couldn't block them all...
OTOH, this kind of shit shit shouldn't be tolerated and the companies providing upstream links to them should cut them off. Or maybe the government could regulate this somehow. They don't seem to give a shit about our rights, so why would they care about some ISPs?
There is an IR link already available for TI graphing calculators. More limited than RF, but it might be useful, depending on how badly you need to cheat...
It CAN lead to significant processing errors. That's why there is so much work dedicated to overclocking and cooling. When your system is overclocked, it is possible for it to be unstable, but there are all kinds of utilities to monitor temperatures and voltages, and to test the CPUs stability (running massive calculations like dnetc and checking for errors). Most overclockers tweak their systems until they are clocked as high as possible and remaining as stable as a non overclocked system. Besides that, if a machine is overclocked too far to run dnetc stablely, it won't be able to run an OS either. If a computer cannot do the decryption calculations necessary, how could it calculate a correct checksum for the key block before sending it back to d.net? (I would think that the client would do this. It's just common sense.) Also, the chances that THE key will be in a block computed incorrectly by an over-overclocked computer are very slim.
I mean that the 3d environment would be used to simulate the 2d or 3d displays that the computer (or whatever) are actually using. this would include input devices such as keyboards and mice or whatever wierd ass thing, since anything is possible just by programming the 3d world properly
wont the matrix thing make display tech. irrelevant? who would want a 3d wall sized tv when you can sit in your matrix vr workstation room/world surrounded by whatever displays you prefer (19" flat crts in my case). you could even have as many computers as you like in any configuration all emulated on a quantum computer (or THE quantum computer, we'd theoretically only need one.
It's his life to use as he wishes to acheive his dream. Linus only needed to spend a lot of time coding. He was doing that anyway. No big sacrifice needed. This guy is risking his life, because someone needs to go up in this thing and he wants to do it. His dream happens to require that kind of risk. That doesn't make it a stupid idea.
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You forget that I don't acknowledge that Windows is slow.
How is that hypocritical? If I were saying Solaris was the greatest thing in the world, that might be hypocritical. Saying it sucks ass is completely consistant with the facts implied by my email address and whatnot, mainly that I support Microsoft products.
In the home user market at least. You can't really compare it with Slowaris because they are mostly in the high end Unix market. The only market they really share is the hard core psychotic bastard market of people who would actually use Unix at home. And I don't think much effort has been made to gather data on them, because they usually ignore attempts to collect that kind of information, or lie.
One of my favorites. Do you know Year of tha Boomerang?
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2) Fuck other people. They can use their bandwidth to hammer with 30 second retrys.
I never felt discriminated against. If your connection moves data slower it's going to take longer. The server doesn't mind waiting, and if I did I would get a faster connection. What's the problem?
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Thats offtopic, I belive.
So teh hidden microphones can pick it up?
I prefer to use chipsets from the same company that made the CPU*. Intel chipsets with Intel CPUs, and AMD chipsets with AMD CPUs.
Anyway, we can't have Intel based systems be price competitive with AMD based systems, can we now.
*Yeah, that's a mostly unfounded prejudice.
This is the trouble with Ogg Vorbis. It isn't supported by these things. If they had rewriteable firmware, it would be possible to hack support into them, but as far as I know, not many of them do this.
I would rather use my CD player anyway. A real CD sounds better anyway. It is also a simple matter to make an expendable copy of a CD so the original isn't in danger of theft or damage.
Actually there was a similar phrase in Linus's book.
Because I had been overly optimistic in the naming of version 0.95, I was caught in a bind. Over the course of the two years it took to get version 1.0 out the door, we were forced to do some crazy things with numbers. There waren't many numbers between 95 and 100, but we continually released new versions based on bug fixes or added functions. By the time we got to version 0.99, we had to start adding numbers to indicate patch levels, and then we relied on the alphabet. At one point we had version 0.99, patch level 15A. Then version 0.99, patch level 15B, and so on. We made it all the way to patch level 15Z. Patch level 16 became version 1.0, the point where it was usable. This was released in March 1994 with great fanfare at the University of Helsinki Computer Sciences Department auditorium.
I never saw anything wrong with version X.YYY, IE: version 0.100, 0.101, 2.4.634, etc...
Couldn't Be have sued Compaq over that? Sounds like a lot of easy money. Perhaps Palm could persue this now?
The fact that they are made of gas doesn't help much either.
It looks more like 10% to me (eyeballing the first graph). What bothers me is that Microsoft went up about the same amount.
.Net bullshit, it is a bad sign.
By itself, it doesn't mean anything more than what it claims to be. Taking it along with other information such as this
Open Source will never go away. When(if) the Internet becomes controlled and commercialized, we will ignore and avoid it or go someplace else. It won't be the end of the world.
Microsoft doesn't give two craps about Sony as far as Sony could affect their bottom line. In the end they can make more money selling things to people so that the people can rip Sony off than Sony could give them not to.
Microsoft can make lots of money selling Sony technology to force people to buy their products in such a way that makes more money for Sony (such as 30 day licences). Microsoft gets payed by Sony and everyone who buys Windows XP or whatever so they can buy new releases from Sony, and Sony makes much more money by selling the music repeatedly to the same people who still want it in their playlist after their time is up. They care about each other, but only to the extent that it keeps their money coming in.
The actual speed of the vector CPU's in Cray supercomputers is shockingly irrelevant to actual performance. I forget why. :)
How can wiring be intellectual property?
If you had submitted this to segfault, people would say "hey, that guy is creative and appealing sexually." Instead, you are going to get shitted on by moderators.
Wouldn't it be possible to use IP tunnelling to get around their filters? Currently people are running an IPV6 network over the internet using a similar mechanism iirc. Using Freenet, we could set up a way to keep a list of IP addresses to use so that they couldn't block them all...
OTOH, this kind of shit shit shouldn't be tolerated and the companies providing upstream links to them should cut them off. Or maybe the government could regulate this somehow. They don't seem to give a shit about our rights, so why would they care about some ISPs?
There is an IR link already available for TI graphing calculators. More limited than RF, but it might be useful, depending on how badly you need to cheat...
http://sami.ticalc.org/irlink/
It CAN lead to significant processing errors. That's why there is so much work dedicated to overclocking and cooling. When your system is overclocked, it is possible for it to be unstable, but there are all kinds of utilities to monitor temperatures and voltages, and to test the CPUs stability (running massive calculations like dnetc and checking for errors). Most overclockers tweak their systems until they are clocked as high as possible and remaining as stable as a non overclocked system. Besides that, if a machine is overclocked too far to run dnetc stablely, it won't be able to run an OS either. If a computer cannot do the decryption calculations necessary, how could it calculate a correct checksum for the key block before sending it back to d.net? (I would think that the client would do this. It's just common sense.) Also, the chances that THE key will be in a block computed incorrectly by an over-overclocked computer are very slim.
The fact that someone thought this was insightful.
I mean that the 3d environment would be used to simulate the 2d or 3d displays that the computer (or whatever) are actually using. this would include input devices such as keyboards and mice or whatever wierd ass thing, since anything is possible just by programming the 3d world properly
wont the matrix thing make display tech. irrelevant? who would want a 3d wall sized tv when you can sit in your matrix vr workstation room/world surrounded by whatever displays you prefer (19" flat crts in my case). you could even have as many computers as you like in any configuration all emulated on a quantum computer (or THE quantum computer, we'd theoretically only need one.
It's his life to use as he wishes to acheive his dream. Linus only needed to spend a lot of time coding. He was doing that anyway. No big sacrifice needed. This guy is risking his life, because someone needs to go up in this thing and he wants to do it. His dream happens to require that kind of risk. That doesn't make it a stupid idea.
Some people don't think attacking someones life's work is a joke.